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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

September 1, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Miami-Dade firefighter comforting Jack after finding the black dog inside a dumpster.

Firefighters answered a call about ducklings trapped in trash and expected another routine animal rescue, but by the time the tiny birds were safe the crew had made an unexpected new friend

September 1, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Marine life around an offshore wind turbine foundation in the waters off Taiwan.

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

September 1, 2026 at 6:30 AM
NASA's Dragonfly rotorcraft flying above the surface of Saturn's moon Titan in an artist's concept.

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

August 31, 2026 at 6:30 PM
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

August 31, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Cows and calves grazing beneath CattleTracker solar panels at Silicon Ranch in Tennessee.

A Tennessee solar farm is letting cows graze beneath moving panels, and the experiment could change what happens to farmland under clean energy

August 31, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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

August 31, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Hands showing joint swelling and deformity associated with rheumatoid arthritis.

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

August 31, 2026 at 8:45 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

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

August 30, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Bajau diver spearfishing underwater without breathing equipment in Southeast Asia.

Most people struggle to hold their breath underwater for two minutes, but the Bajau can spend up to five hours a day diving and working beneath the sea after generations of life built around the ocean

August 30, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Vertical solar fence with photovoltaic panels installed along the boundary of a residential property.

It had been standing beside a backyard fence for years looking like an ordinary part of the property, but when someone finally investigated what it was doing there the answer turned out to be far stranger than expected

August 30, 2026 at 3:00 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

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

August 30, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Chessie tunnel-boring machine built for the Parallel Thimble Shoal Tunnel beneath Chesapeake Bay.

Engineers built a gigantic machine to work beneath Chesapeake waters where ordinary construction equipment cannot reach, and the scale of what it must move shows why some infrastructure projects require machines almost as impressive as the structures themselves

August 30, 2026 at 8:45 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

August 29, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Ship operating beside an offshore wind turbine in dense fog at sea.

Ships sailing between offshore wind turbines face a problem that barely existed a generation ago, and with thousands more giant towers heading to European waters authorities are rethinking how vessels navigate through these artificial forests

August 29, 2026 at 5:00 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

August 29, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Reconstruction of Eoceras shaanxiense, an early Cambrian cephalopod with a straight chambered shell.

Scientists opened a window into life more than 500 million years ago with an unusually preserved Cambrian fossil, and one tiny anatomical detail may help explain how a major feature of modern animals first appeared

August 29, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Illustration of Earth and the Moon showing the celestial relationship that gradually affects Earth's rotation.

Earth may have spent roughly a billion years with days stuck near 19 hours long, and scientists think an extraordinary tug-of-war involving the Moon and the atmosphere temporarily stopped the planet’s rotation from slowing normally

August 29, 2026 at 10:15 AM
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