Sonia Ramírez
Starship flew for the 13th time with a clean splashdown, but the Mars test that matters most still has not happened
A Modesto porch hid a pug mother and two cow-spotted puppies, but California heat made the rescue urgent
New Orleans is turning discarded bottles into coastal sand, and each crushed glass load can help rebuild a shrinking wetland
One unpermitted truck load hit six Oklahoma bridges in a single trip, and the mistake cost nearly half a million dollars
A Queensland fossil preserved an ichthyosaur’s last meal, but the hunter soon became food for something even larger
A dark shape under Chernobyl’s green water went viral as a mutant catfish, but the real transformation began when the pumps stopped
A 46-foot robot boat found a distress beacon off Plymouth, and its steady hull may matter more to navies than hydrogen
A harpy eagle can pull monkeys from rainforest trees, but the predator’s giant talons cannot save it from disappearing habitat
NASA’s Viking 2 photographed a pale frost on Mars nearly 50 years ago, and scientists now think it may have created 30 days of hidden brine
A Wyoming mountain could become a 972-megawatt water battery, but the project may disturb the trout waters below Seminoe Reservoir
Four kittens survived inside a taped grocery basket outside a British Columbia shelter, but their rescue shows why drop-offs can turn dangerous
Psychology says the friend who never asks for help may be hiding a survival strategy learned long before adulthood
NASA’s new space processor fits in a gloved hand, but its 500-times speed could change how spacecraft survive far from Earth
Millions rely on LDL cholesterol tests to judge heart risk, but a new study suggests apoB may uncover dangerous particles those familiar numbers can miss and could help prevent more heart attacks and strokes
China ran seven 5,000-ton coal trains across Inner Mongolia without physically coupling the train units, using a radio link to keep the 35,000-ton formation moving in sync, and officials say the system could boost rail capacity by more than 50% without laying new track
Oregon built a wind, solar and battery site for 100,000 homes, but a 10-ounce endangered squirrel still decides when crews can dig
A massive iceberg flipped off Greenland while cameras watched, and the hidden force below the water turned melting ice into waves









