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Red streetlights illuminate a road and surrounding trees in Gladsaxe, Denmark, in a bat-friendly lighting project

Denmark is turning off the white light from its streetlamps and painting a road red to solve a nighttime crisis that almost no one sees: urban light was blocking the path of bats

April 21, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Portrait of Hans Adolf Krebs, Nobel Prize-winning physician and biochemist known for the citric acid cycle

Hans Adolf Krebs, Nobel laureate in Medicine: “The breakdown and burning of fats depend, to a large extent, on the continuous catabolism of carbohydrates”

April 21, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Visitors feed a giraffe at Sedgwick County Zoo in Wichita, Kansas

A zoo in the United States is building a $46 million African savanna, and the most striking feature isn’t the giraffes or the rhinos, but a hotel with a direct view of the habitat

April 21, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Woman looking out a window alone, illustrating why kind people may struggle to form close friendships, according to psychology

Psychology suggests that the kindest people don’t always end up surrounded by close friends; they have often learned to be helpful, understanding, and available in ways that make others feel cared for, but not necessarily understood by them

April 21, 2026 at 5:53 AM
Close-up of honey bees illustrating research on how bee gut DNA can reveal urban ecosystem health and biodiversity

Scientists are studying the digestive tracts of wild bees, and what they’re discovering is forcing us to rethink why some parks appear green but are far less beneficial than we thought

April 21, 2026 at 3:17 AM
Robert Frost outdoors in winter in a portrait of the American poet

A quote attributed to Robert Frost has been circulating in offices around the world for decades and remains unsettling for one reason: his explanation of when the brain stops thinking has lost none of its power

April 20, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Illustration of NASA’s DART spacecraft approaching the Dimorphos and Didymos asteroid system in space

For the first time, humanity significantly altered the orbit of a celestial body

April 20, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Two killer whales swim side by side at the ocean surface in a photo used to illustrate research on possible orca-on-orca predation

A colleague sent Olga a strange photo taken on a Russian beach, and now scientists believe they have discovered a macabre pattern among orcas: sometimes they hunt each other

April 20, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Astronaut photo of Salinas Las Barrancas in Argentina, a heart-shaped pink salt lake seen from the International Space Station

NASA observes Argentina from the International Space Station and detects a gigantic pink heart nearly 10 kilometers wide, whose color does not have as romantic an origin as it seems

April 20, 2026 at 12:30 PM
View of Earth from space illustrating changes in the planet’s rotation that could lead to future 25‑hour days.

Goodbye to the 24-hour day: from this date onwards, days on Earth will last 25 hours

April 20, 2026 at 10:27 AM
Interior view of Scărișoara Ice Cave in Romania, where scientists recovered an ancient bacterium from millennia-old ice

Scientists extract a bacterium over 5,000 years old from the ice and discover something disturbing: it was already resistant to ten modern antibiotics long before our medicine existed

April 20, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Ian González Santos during a university degree ceremony with academic recognition in Mexico

Ian Emmanuel, molecular biologist at age 12, on his school: “They told me I had attention deficit disorder”

April 20, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Cladosporium sphaerospermum fungus growing in a high-radiation environment linked to Chernobyl research

A form of life has been detected in Chernobyl that not only resists radiation, but seems to use it to grow

April 20, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Two Atlantic puffins standing on a grassy cliff in Iceland with wings spread

Farewell to the harbor lights: light pollution could wipe out 40% of the world’s puffin population

April 20, 2026 at 4:39 AM
Solar storm activity affecting satellites in low Earth orbit with potential impact on GPS and communications

The new threat that worries scientists does not come from Earth, but from the Sun, and could affect satellites, GPS, and communications

April 19, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton showing foot structure linked to bird-like toe walking gait in new study

Goodbye to the T. rex from “Jurassic Park”: a new study argues that it didn’t run like a giant reptile, but with a gait much more similar to that of an ostrich

April 19, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Seismic map of Northern California showing earthquake activity near the Mendocino Triple Junction and hidden fault structures

What appeared to be a simple union of plates in California hides a much more chaotic system, and these small earthquakes have just exposed it

April 19, 2026 at 3:00 PM
The Hubble Space Telescope is tracking the four icy fragments of Comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) as they travel through space, while a puzzling 48-hour delay in the increase in brightness is forcing theorists at Auburn University to rethink all their hypotheses about the timeline of its disintegration

The Hubble Space Telescope is tracking the four icy fragments of Comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) as they travel through space, while a puzzling 48-hour delay in the increase in brightness is forcing theorists at Auburn University to rethink all their hypotheses about the timeline of its disintegration

April 19, 2026 at 2:08 PM
Fossilized reptile skin impression with visible scale patterns from the Early Permian discovered in Germany

The oldest reptile skin prints ever seen have been discovered in Germany, and what is most surprising is that they are almost 300 million years old

April 19, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Workers operate industrial machinery processing banana pseudostems into fiber pulp for tissue paper production inside a large factory

The thousands of tons of banana pseudostems left rotting after each harvest are now being transformed into tissue paper and packaging materials, while a simple process using sodium hydroxide at 230°F is achieving pulp yields of up to 44 percent in April 2026 trials

April 19, 2026 at 11:21 AM
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