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DEEP Vanguard underwater habitat installed on the seafloor at Tennessee Reef in the Florida Keys.

Engineers lowered a giant steel structure into the water off the Florida Keys where it will deliberately remain on the seabed, but what looks like abandoned industrial hardware is designed to become something alive

By Adrian Villellas

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August 31, 2026 at 10:15 AM

Chondrosia reniformis, commonly known as the chicken kidney sponge, growing on a rocky marine surface.

Scientists placed 42 sea sponges inside a polluted Spanish port and left them there for 455 days, but when they returned one species had thrived while four others had died

By Sonia Ramírez

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August 31, 2026 at 6:30 AM

Hand holding a thermal paper receipt, a type of paper commonly coated with bisphenol developers.

That paper receipt handed over after an everyday purchase may carry a chemical coating most people never think about, and researchers are asking what repeated contact with bisphenols means when millions of receipts change hands every day

By Adrian Villellas

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August 30, 2026 at 6:30 PM

Overturned fish tanker beside Lookingglass Creek in Oregon after crashing while transporting young Chinook salmon.

A truck carrying young salmon crashed beside an Oregon creek and suddenly released thousands of fish somewhere they were never supposed to be, turning a highway accident into one of the strangest wildlife stories of the year

By Sonia Ramírez

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August 30, 2026 at 12:35 PM

White-tailed eagles flying near wind turbines with a blade painted black at the Smøla wind farm in Norway.

Scientists painted one blade black on wind turbines on a Norwegian island and watched what happened to white-tailed eagles, turning an almost ridiculously simple visual change into an experiment with potentially enormous consequences for birds

By Adrian Villellas

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August 30, 2026 at 10:15 AM

Living green roof covering Ford's Rouge factory complex in Dearborn, Michigan.

Ford covered the roof of its enormous Rouge factory with living plants instead of conventional roofing, and years later the industrial site has become an unlikely habitat for birds above one of America’s most famous car plants

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August 29, 2026 at 6:25 PM

Scientists crossing the snow-covered summit glacier of Mount Ararat during the 2026 research expedition.

Scientists climbed onto a shrinking mountain glacier to measure what remained beneath their feet, and the survey is revealing just how quickly a frozen landscape that survived for generations can disappear

By Adrian Villellas

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August 29, 2026 at 3:00 PM

Fin whale swimming near the ocean surface and releasing a powerful blow.

The fin whale can grow longer than a city bus and race through the ocean at remarkable speeds despite weighing tens of tons, yet this enormous animal remains one of the least noticed giants swimming through our seas

By Sonia Ramírez

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August 29, 2026 at 7:00 AM

American crocodile hatchlings emerging from their eggs at Turkey Point in Florida.

Florida’s Turkey Point nuclear plant became a refuge for American crocodiles, but its 168 miles of cooling canals left a salty problem underground

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August 28, 2026 at 6:10 PM

Young lions confront a massive hippo at the edge of a waterhole in Botswana.

About seven young lions surrounded a massive hippo at a Botswana waterhole and even chased it into the water, but one intimidating turn from the several-ton animal was enough to make the entire pride reconsider its plan

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August 28, 2026 at 12:58 PM

Concordia Research Station on the Antarctic Plateau, where temperatures fell to -119.4°F in July 2026.

A thermometer in Antarctica hit -119.4 °F twice in nine minutes, and the coldest air reading in 14 years hides a climate paradox

By Sonia Ramírez

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August 27, 2026 at 3:25 PM

Beaver carries a branch while standing on a dam in a waterway.

Beavers kept rebuilding dams in Oregon’s aging canal, turning a century-old embankment into a safety hazard engineers finally had to address

By Adrian Villellas

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August 26, 2026 at 12:04 PM

Two burrowing owls stand beside an artificial burrow at an Arizona solar farm.

Workers built an Arizona solar farm to generate electricity beneath the desert sun, but tiny burrowing owls moved into the landscape and turned part of the energy project into an unexpected nursery for their chicks

By Adrian Villellas

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August 26, 2026 at 8:45 AM

Adult bald eagle swimming through the water with its wings spread

America’s bald eagle looks like one of nature’s most familiar birds, but its enormous nests, surprising swimming ability and strange everyday behaviors reveal an animal far more unusual than the national symbol suggests

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August 25, 2026 at 8:30 AM

Row of yellow school buses parked at a transportation depot in Texas.

Texas school buses can turn dangerously hot before children even reach class, and researchers are finding that the metal boxes carrying students every day may be trapping far more heat than parents realize

By Sonia Ramírez

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August 23, 2026 at 3:00 PM

Piles of cured oyster shells ready for coastal reef restoration along a Florida shore.

Florida communities collect oyster shells from restaurants, cure them in the sun, and return them to shore to build reefs, but viral claims of 500,000 tons and 25-year highs lack proof

By Sonia Ramírez

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August 23, 2026 at 6:30 AM

Moken child swimming underwater without goggles in the Andaman Sea.

Moken children in the Andaman Sea free-dive without goggles and see clearly underwater, a skill years of practice, not dolphin-like biology, trained into their eyes

By Sonia Ramírez

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August 22, 2026 at 6:30 PM

Pink dye tracer spreads across the ocean during an alkalinity enhancement experiment near Cape Cod.

Researchers released 16,500 gallons of sodium hydroxide into the ocean near Cape Cod, the first EPA-permitted trial of its kind, and a dye tracer followed the patch for five days

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August 22, 2026 at 3:00 PM

Brazilian geneticist Warwick Kerr handling honey bees during his research.

Brazilian geneticist Warwick Kerr bred honey bees for tropical heat in 1956, and 26 swarming colonies spread across the Western Hemisphere by 1990, transforming pollination patterns

By Kevin Montien

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August 22, 2026 at 12:30 PM

Globe skimmer dragonfly flying with its wings extended.

A globe skimmer dragonfly barely 1.5 inches long may fly 3,700 miles across generations, and DNA now links its populations across Asia and the Americas in one migration circuit

By Adrian Villellas

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August 22, 2026 at 10:15 AM

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Todd Stevens and Xavier Duffy examining artifacts recovered from the 1680 Phoenix shipwreck near the Isles of Scilly.

A handwritten note reading “Cap Wildy lost” led divers to a 1680 shipwreck, and the recovered objects are finally becoming public history

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Engineers drove enormous steel foundations directly into bare Atlantic sand to hold offshore wind turbines upright, and what happens around those artificial structures afterward is changing the seabed in ways nobody designed them for

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NASA’s Dragonfly is being built to fly on Titan, where thick air and weak gravity could make a truck-sized robot easier to lift

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Orforglipron oral GLP-1 pill developed by Eli Lilly for adults with type 2 diabetes.

A new diabetes pill lowered blood sugar and body weight more than oral semaglutide, but the convenience came with a harder trade-off

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Scientists spent years testing a phenomenon researchers thought they understood, but the results revealed an unexpected mechanism hiding underneath and raised new questions about how the system actually works

Published On: August 31, 2026 at 8:45 AM

Chondrosia reniformis, commonly known as the chicken kidney sponge, growing on a rocky marine surface.

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Published On: August 31, 2026 at 6:30 AM

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