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Illustration showing bacteria immobilizing dissolved uranium inside the flooded Schlema-Alberoda uranium mine in Germany.

Bacteria living inside an abandoned German uranium mine can lock up 96% of the dissolved radioactive material, which means the mine may already hold the cure for its own contamination

July 29, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Abandoned ships stranded on the dried bed of the Aral Sea after decades of water loss.

The dried bed of the Aral Sea has already released 748 million tons of CO2, and Spanish scientists want to refill it with water before another 605 million escape

July 28, 2026 at 6:30 PM
A physical model illustrating the kagome lattice structure found in the newly identified superconducting materials.

The search for room-temperature superconductors just got a huge boost from artificial intelligence, help that could speed up one of physics’ hardest dreams

July 28, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Rare white cave pearls discovered inside Thang Cave in Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park, Vietnam.

Explorers discovered a cave in Vietnam with rare cave pearls, delicate natural formations that look like jewels made by darkness and water

July 28, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Close-up of giant sauropod dinosaur footprints at the rediscovered Saijrakh tracksite in northern Mongolia, with a researcher for scale.

Giant footprints in Mongolia are shaking up what we knew about dinosaurs, because their size and shape tell a story that does not fit neatly into the old picture

July 28, 2026 at 12:30 PM
The 1,300-year-old wooden skis recovered from the Digervarden ice patch in Norway.

Melting ice in Norway revealed 1,300-year-old skis in remarkable condition, an icy window into how people moved through high mountains centuries ago

July 28, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Archaeological remains of ancient Ambracia in modern Arta, Greece, where the Roman siege took place in 189 BCE.

The Greek city of Ambracia resisted a Roman siege using the first known use of poison gas, an ancient story that sounds way too modern

July 28, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Earthship home built with recycled tires, earth walls, and passive solar design in a desert landscape.

A home built with tires keeps a steady 68 °F without heating or air conditioning, a sustainable oddity that turns trash into comfort

July 28, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Student inventor Zabeer Zarif Akhter testing his plasma water purification prototype in a laboratory.

At 17, a student in Bangladesh used old laptop batteries, broken circuit boards, and parts from an old tube TV to build a solar-powered water purifier

July 27, 2026 at 6:33 PM
Martín Santiago Schmull stands beside the outdoor air intake of a Canadian well earth-to-air cooling system installed in his backyard.

He buried tubes in his yard and cooled his house without air conditioning using an old geothermal system, a simple idea that sounds very tempting when the heat gets nasty

July 27, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Electric car charging at a public station in Spain as lower energy costs continue driving EV adoption.

Driving 100 kilometers in an electric car can cost just 2 or 3 euros compared with 10 to 15 euros in gasoline, a difference that is starting to hit wallets hard

July 27, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Changan Nevo A06, the first mass-produced passenger electric vehicle powered by a sodium-ion battery developed with CATL.

China has introduced the first electric vehicle with a sodium-ion battery capable of driving 400 km on one charge, a bet that could make the next generation of cars cheaper

July 27, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Red king crab (Paralithodes camtschaticus) on the Barents Sea seafloor after becoming one of the world's most successful marine invasive species.

Soviet scientists released giant red king crabs into the Barents Sea in the 1960s to build a fishery, but decades later those invaders are still changing the seafloor

July 27, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Albino yellow-spotted Amazon river turtle (Podocnemis unifilis) hatchling photographed after its rare discovery in Bolivia's Manuripi National Wildlife Reserve.

A tiny albino river turtle was born in Manuripi and amazed the Bolivian Amazon again, a rare discovery that looks like a white signal in the middle of the forest

July 27, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Aerial view of the geotube coastal protection project in Poonthura, India, designed to reduce wave energy and rebuild eroding beaches.

India is sinking giant fabric tubes filled with sand 20 ft. underwater to create an invisible barrier against waves and try to rebuild beaches that are disappearing

July 27, 2026 at 6:36 AM
Dense forest of invasive Australian melaleuca trees growing across wetlands in the Florida Everglades.

The United States planted Australian melaleuca trees in 1906 to drain Florida wetlands, and now they have invaded nearly 500,000 acres, changing fire, water, and native life

July 26, 2026 at 6:30 PM
A collared peccary (Pecari tajacu) running through grassland after returning to the wild in Uruguay.

A species extinct for more than 100 years has returned to the fields and moved conservationists, one of those rare stories where nature seems to get a second chance

July 26, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Chilean student María Javiera Valenzuela holding her NASA Space Apps Challenge award.

A 17-year-old Chilean student is innovating with nuclear energy for Antarctica, a bold proposal mixing youth, extreme science, and one of the harshest places on Earth

July 26, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Researchers testing a next-generation sodium-metal battery designed for ultra-fast charging and long cycle life.

A new sodium-metal battery charges in just 4 minutes and keeps its capacity for years, a number that sounds like a serious hit against today’s battery limits

July 26, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Octopus Energy's Nook Cube plug-in home battery designed to store electricity through a standard wall outlet.

Octopus Energy launched a plug-in home battery, an idea that wants to make storing electricity at home almost as simple as plugging in another appliance

July 26, 2026 at 10:15 AM
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