Smithsonian scientists swabbed 327 museum frogs and tied a mysterious die-off in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest to the chytrid fungus, but the declined species still common enough to collect tested clean
W. Ronald Heyer kept collecting frogs at Brazil's Boracéia Biological Station after many of them stopped showing up, and his jars, stored for decades at the Smithsonian, have now let scientists check them for the chytrid fungus. In…
Yellowstone hot springs, geysers and boardwalks gave up more than 20,100 pieces of trash, 5,600 rocks and sticks and over 280 hats by early September, including six Invisalign retainers and a single Uno card
A 2-inch copy of The Vampire Diaries turned up in one of Yellowstone's thermal areas this summer, along with six Invisalign retainers,…
In China’s Yunnan Province, scientists found a giant fungus nicknamed D-rex that grows up to 20 inches tall, and its family likely arose about 65 million years ago, as the dinosaurs died out
Jing Song collected it on August 5, 2024, near Damaidi, a village in Luquan County, part of the city of Kunming, in…
Israel released 28 Asiatic wild asses into the Negev from 1982 to 1987, and DNA from their dung now shows a herd eating native plants and inbreeding less after managers added three water points
In 1982, Israel began releasing Asiatic wild asses in the Ein Saharonim area of Makhtesh Ramon, the giant erosion crater in the…
An islet in Scotland’s Loch Bhorgastail is a 5,000-year-old artificial island built on a 75-foot timber platform, and hundreds of Neolithic potsherds, some holding food residue, lay around it
In July 2023, archaeologists in Loch Bhorgastail, on Scotland's Isle of Lewis, dug a small pit through a layer of laid logs…
Japan’s MMX mission is set to launch October 19 to bring back the first sample from Mars’s moon Phobos, and a 55-pound rover named Idefix will touch down on the moon first
Japan's MMX mission is scheduled to lift off from the Tanegashima Space Center at 4:41:03 a.m. Japan time on Tuesday, October 20,…
Angelina Jolie’s foundation has spent 20 years in a 150,720-acre Cambodian forest where elephants and pangolins still roam, and its rangers pulled about 4.8 miles of wire snares out in 2025
Angelina Jolie's foundation has looked after the Samlaut forest in northwestern Cambodia for 20 years, and a June 2026 field note says…
In West Antarctica, a Thwaites Glacier model checked against 27 years of satellite records projects it could add up to about 1.2 inches to global seas by 2100, and that is roughly double earlier estimates
From March to June of 2023, Finland's ICEYE radar satellites passed over Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica day after day. They watched…
Off Mozambique, divers surveyed three peat reefs made of forest peat up to 5,000 years old, and each held 26 to 36 kinds of small fish with no living coral
Divers working off Mozambique's San Sebastian Peninsula in 2023 kept finding fish on a seabed that used to be forest. The dark…
In New Mexico’s White Sands National Park, footprints left beside mammoths date to 23,500 to 21,700 years ago, and pollen shows those walkers saw pine forest turn to pinyon and juniper within about 100 years
In January 2022, a crew that included USGS research geologist Kathleen Springer and her colleague Jeffrey Pigati went back to a trench…
In gardens across Britain and Europe, a dark dropping up to 2 inches long can be hedgehog poop rather than a rat sign, and the Mammal Society says shiny insect fragments give it away
Many hedgehogs cross a lawn at night without being seen, but plenty of people find the dark little sausage it leaves on…
Scientists grew the UK’s first rice crop in four flooded paddies near Ely during the record-breaking summer of 2025, and the trial could help farmers keep the Fens’ peat soils wet
In the summer of 2025, rice plants stood in calf-deep water on a farm a few miles north of Ely, in the…
In the eastern Pacific, NASA satellites show seas up to 1.3 feet higher as NOAA gives the strongest El Niño since 1950 an 83 percent chance for October to December, and equatorial waters turn bluer
In January 2026, satellites spotted a swell of warm water near Micronesia, in the western Pacific Ocean. By October, NOAA's Climate Prediction…
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A giant isopod brought from Puerto Rico in the 1980s sat in a University of Tübingen collection under the wrong name for decades, and a closer look shows the 12.7-inch crustacean is a new species
A dried giant isopod brought from Puerto Rico in the late 1980s, and filed for decades in the University of Tübingen collection…
Awunbarna in western Arnhem Land holds 20 of the 52 known recent Rainbow Serpent rock paintings, one 20 feet long, and archaeologists argue artists painted them big as colonization upended their world
On the ceiling of a rock shelter at Awunbarna, in Australia's Northern Territory, a white serpent with a crocodile-like head and a…
University of Kentucky students designed 12 small capsules to test experimental heat shields, including a 3D-printed one, and they left the ISS inside a cargo ship full of trash set to burn up on reentry
On Oct. 7, a dome-shaped capsule with a University of Kentucky sticker floated among stowed bags inside a Northrop Grumman Cygnus XL…
A toothless hell chicken dinosaur from Montana’s Hell Creek Formation weighed about 26 pounds, and scientists think its jaw slid back and forth to mash soft fruit like a parrot’s
A toothless dinosaur dug up in July 2011 in the Hell Creek Formation of Garfield County, Montana, has been named Infernogallus jamesi,…
Archaeologists packing up a Roman-era cemetery near Wrocław, Poland, found a 5,000-year-old grave with a necklace of 42 drilled teeth and two extra skulls, and researchers want to know whether the heads were cut off
Archaeologists digging a late Roman cemetery outside Wrocław, Poland, had started tidying up the site when a circular outline about 13 feet…
On a ridge above Alaska’s Tanana River, archaeologists recovered more than 80,000 objects from a 13,800-year-old Ice Age base camp, and its diamond-shaped stone points match ones found in Siberia
Inside what its excavators describe as the earliest potential habitation structure in North America, archaeologists digging an Ice Age base camp in…
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Las latas de aluminio ganan a la botella de PET y al vidrio: el 76 % se recicla en el mundo frente al 54 % del PET y el 51 % del vidrio, según el informe de 2026
De cada 100 latas de aluminio que se venden en el mundo, 77 se recogen para reciclar y 76 acaban …
Córdoba tendrá la planta solar híbrida Silverio, la primera autorizada en la provincia según Nexwell, y sus más de 110 MWh en baterías guardarán la energía del día para la noche desde 2027, según prevé la empresa
El 3 de diciembre de 2025, un dron de Nexwell Power sobrevoló la planta fotovoltaica Silverio, en Guadalcázar (Córdoba), mientras …
Científicos plantaron árboles en un antiguo pastizal ganadero de México y 17 años después había casi el doble de plantas nuevas donde eligieron especies cuyas semillas mueven los animales que donde no plantaron nada
En julio de 2023, cuatro parejas de investigadores recorrieron palmo a palmo 24 parcelas cercadas con alambre de espino en …
Los peces terrestres revelan una pista sobre la vida fuera del agua: los microbios de su piel
Un estudio que contó con la participación del MNCN-CSIC comparó tres especies de peces que habitan en Guam y encontró …
La Albufera tras la dana recupera su vida microbiana, pero sigue lejos de las aguas claras
La Albufera absorbió una enorme avenida de agua y residuos durante la inundación de Valencia del año 2024. La recuperación …
Corales formadores de arrecifes: el 44 % de las especies está amenazado de extinción
Una evaluación que se publicó en la revista Nature ha identificado 340 especies de corales formadores de arrecifes que están …
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Chunk, the 2025 champion with a permanently broken jaw, lost his first match by 118,731 votes to 46,053, and Fat Bear Week 2026 went to Backpack, a 20-year-old bear whose survival park staff once doubted
Chunk came back to Brooks Falls this September with his lower jaw still hanging off the right side of his muzzle, a…
Georgia beaches logged a record 4,292 sea turtle nests in 2026, up from 358 in 2004, and hundreds of volunteers patrolled the coast from Cumberland Island to Tybee to protect them
Georgia's barrier island beaches logged 4,292 sea turtle nests in 2026, according to preliminary counts from the Georgia Department of Natural Resources'…
In South Africa’s Kruger National Park, an elephant carcass can push soil ammonium to nearly 3,000 times nearby levels, and the biodiversity coldspot it creates is still there nearly 8 years later
In 2009, a large, lone bull elephant called Alexander died of natural causes just off one of the main roads in South…
A man in Fergana, Uzbekistan, filled a basement pool with what he called Siamese sharks, and ecology inspectors found a Mekong catfish that is endangered in the wild and can reach 97 pounds
In early September, inspectors went down into the basement of apartment building No. 78 in the Muruvvat neighborhood of Fergana, in eastern…
The Seychelles have been receiving tons of plastic on their beaches for years, and a new study suggests that up to 66 percent of the fishing waste could come from their own waters
Boats fishing inside the Seychelles' own waters are the most likely source of the fishing debris that washes up on its islands,…
Tasmania introduced the European trout into its rivers in 1865, and 161 years later, a small native fish survives only in the few streams that its descendants have not yet been able to reach
Brown trout hatched at the Salmon Ponds on Tasmania's Plenty River in 1864, the first in the Southern Hemisphere, and were let…
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Princeton physicists reworked a 70-year-old fusion rule and calculated heating plasma first is the lowest-energy path to fusion ignition, while a trace of tungsten can roughly double the pressure
In 2015, Luis Delgado-Aparicio, a physicist at a U.S. Department of Energy fusion laboratory in New Jersey, won a five-year, $2.6 million…
When he was 15, he wanted to impress his mother with a kite, and that crazy idea ended up leading him to design a home turbine; what’s more, he has already sold his entire projected production for 2027
In a video KiteX posted in June 2026, founder Andreas Okholm stands in a field next to a slim mast held up…
Fervo’s Cape Station in Utah began commercial operation a day early at 33 MW, a first for utility-scale enhanced geothermal plants, and its co-founder traces the idea to overheating drill motors
Tim Latimer's road to Cape Station, the enhanced geothermal plant his company now runs in Utah, started with a maintenance problem. In…
The Tennessee Valley Authority has an NRC permit to build the first U.S. commercial small modular reactor, a 300-megawatt unit at Clinch River in Oak Ridge, and it still needs a separate operating license
The signing took place on a Tuesday in TVA's Knoxville office, with Gov. Bill Lee, Sen. Marsha Blackburn and Reps. Chuck Fleischmann…
TouchWind put a floating wind turbine with a 20-foot rotor that tilts back like a helicopter in storms on a Dutch lake, and the test asks whether wind farms can pack turbines closer together
"A diver. Mooring lines. Precision under water." That is how TouchWind, a small wind company from Eindhoven, opened its post about the…
The Energy Department offered Vistra up to $4.2 billion for 433 more megawatts from nuclear uprates at three plants in Ohio and Pennsylvania, and the upgrades could help keep them running 20 years past their licenses
Energy Secretary Chris Wright went to the Perry Nuclear Power Plant, on Lake Erie east of Cleveland, on Monday, October 5, to…
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Cologne tested a curb charger that hides a 22-kilowatt EV socket inside a standard-size curbstone, logging 2,829 charging sessions with over 99 percent availability, and installation still cost about the same as a charging post
Four curb chargers on Klosterstrasse and Dürener Strasse in Cologne logged 2,829 validated charging sessions in 329 days and were available more…
The world’s largest construction vessel had to take on ballast water and sink lower to fit under the 213-foot clearance of Denmark’s Great Belt Bridge on its way to a Baltic wind farm
Pioneering Spirit, the world’s largest construction vessel, passed under Denmark’s Great Belt Bridge on Tuesday, September 29, on its way to install…
Maersk fueled the 9,016-TEU Tangier Maersk with 100 percent corn ethanol in America’s first ethanol bunkering of a deep-sea container ship, as a national lab says today’s methanol-ready fleet could burn 2 billion gallons yearly
Andrea Lazzaro, head of business development at the marine engine designer WinGD, told Ship & Bunker in an interview published in March…
The Agua Negra tunnel plan calls for a custom machine to bore twin 8.6-mile tubes under the Andes, but the $1.5 billion Argentina-Chile project has been stuck since the IDB approved it in 2017
By August 7, 2026, the Cristo Redentor pass between Mendoza and Santiago had been closed by snow for 24 days, with more…
Michigan State engineer John Dorgan ate gummy bears made with an ingredient recovered from a resin designed for wind turbine blades, and the same material can also become plexiglass, diaper polymer and new turbine panels
John Dorgan says he ate the gummy bears himself. "We recovered food-grade potassium lactate and used it to make gummy bear candies,…
Airbus A350F freighter completes its maiden flight and begins 400-hour test campaign
Dozens of buyers, financiers and suppliers stood beside the runway in Toulouse, France, on September 29, 2026, to watch the first A350F…
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Un microrreactor nuclear que cabe en un contenedor de 6 metros logró su primera reacción en cadena en Idaho unos 150 días después de arrancar el proyecto y en 2027 deberá probarse a plena potencia
El 30 de junio de 2026, a última hora del día, un reactor del tamaño de un contenedor marítimo de …
La ETH Zúrich y el PSI crean un haz de muonio a 2180 metros por segundo para poner a prueba la gravedad de Einstein, aunque el experimento que medirá su caída tardará aún dos o tres años
En una cámara de cobre del Instituto Paul Scherrer (PSI), en Villigen (Suiza), una capa de helio de 2 milímetros …
Estados Unidos desechó casi 11 millones de toneladas de muebles en 2018 y el reciclaje de muebles medido por la EPA se quedó en el 0,3 %: desmontarlos es caro por el pegamento, según un informe neerlandés
Cuando un sofá viejo sale por la puerta de una casa en Estados Unidos, lo más probable es que termine …
La Universidad de Sharjah patenta en Estados Unidos un cilindro con bolas de acero que disipa la vibración de los terremotos sin electricidad y en el laboratorio logró una razón de amortiguamiento del 14 %
En un laboratorio de la Universidad de Sharjah, en Emiratos Árabes Unidos, un cilindro relleno de bolas de acero de …
Un matrimonio compró en 2008 un rancho de Texas castigado por el pastoreo y vendió el ganado, y con 19.300 acres restaurados sus pavos salvajes pasaron de menos de 50 a más de 500
En las llanuras onduladas que separan Fort Worth de Abilene hay un rancho de Texas donde hoy se oye el …
Una presa bajo un antiguo ferrocarril de Michigan bloqueó el arroyo Buckhorn durante más de 120 años, y al probar el nuevo cauce ya había truchas esperando para remontar hacia 3,9 kilómetros de agua fría
Cuando el equipo del proyecto puso a prueba el nuevo cauce del arroyo Buckhorn, en Michigan (Estados Unidos), dejando pasar …
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Pegasus, a 16-foot-wide drone built by three Australian companies, flew for almost 2 hours over Queensland on a single lithium-sulfur battery pack, and its makers now expect missions of 5 to 8 hours
On its longest test flight, over Queensland in Australia, a drone called Pegasus ran on one lithium-sulfur battery pack for almost 2…
Louisiana’s Lake Peigneur emptied into a salt mine within hours in 1980 while a Texaco rig drilled on the lake, and about 50 miners escaped, but federal investigators never pinned down the exact cause
Leonce Viator Jr. had taken his nephew out to their favorite fishing hole on Lake Peigneur early on November 20, 1980. "I…
GM and LG will mass-produce LMR battery cells in Tennessee and add 500 jobs
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee and his deputy governor, Stuart McWhorter, announced on Tuesday, September 29, 2026, that the battery plant in Spring…
Physicists fired a laser at the plastic used in drink bottles and recovered nanodiamonds just 3 nanometers wide, after each shot hurled about 10 trillion of them at more than 22,000 mph into a soft gel
"The idea is quite cool. You take water bottle plastic; you zap it with a laser to make diamond. How practical it…
Robots built by the Israeli company Ecoppia roll along desert solar panels every night and brush off the dust without a drop of water, saving about 2.6 billion gallons so far, according to the company
Picture a huge solar farm in the desert at night. No sun, no workers, just long rows of dark panels. And then,…
Norway’s King Harald V now lies in a boat-shaped sarcophagus carved from olivine, a green Norwegian rock that can bind CO2, but no one has measured how much carbon the royal tomb will actually take up
"Sarcophagus." King Harald V opened his speech at the annual dinner for members of Norway's parliament on Oct. 24, 2024, with that…
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Two amateur archaeologists found 141 Roman gold coins in a field in Luxembourg, and beneath them, they also discovered a fortification that had been buried for more than 1,600 years
Two amateur archaeologists prospecting a plowed field near Holzthum, a village in northern Luxembourg, set off a find that ended with 141…
In 1988, a treasure hunter discovered a ship loaded with gold that had been sunk since 1857, but he ended up spending more than 11 years behind bars over 500 coins whose whereabouts remain a mystery
Finding a sunken fortune sounds like the end of a treasure hunt. For American engineer Tommy Thompson, it became the beginning of…
A miner pushing dirt with a bulldozer near Ruby, Alaska, in 1998 spotted something unusual, and it turned out to be the state’s largest gold nugget, a 294.1-troy-ounce mass that later sold for $750,000
In 1998, Barry Clay was pushing dirt with a bulldozer on a placer claim along Swift Creek, near the Yukon River village…
Someone laying a patio in northern Denmark dug up the country’s largest known Viking silver hoard, 18.5 kilograms of bracelets, bars and coins, and one bar is scratched with a runic word experts have never seen before
"It was only supposed to be a couple of hours of hard yard work," the finder said, translated from Danish. The job…
A Wyoming coal mine bought for $2 million in 2011 holds what Ramaco calls the largest unconventional rare earth deposit in the US, and a new engineering report has pushed first production back to 2031
Randall Atkins went to Wyoming looking for coal. In 2011 his company bought the defunct Brook Mine near Sheridan for $2 million,…
A metal detectorist near Cologne stopped digging after 15 silver coins and called archaeologists, who then found 934 Roman denarii, the largest hoard from Hadrian’s time ever found in Germany
Oliver Riedl had already pulled 15 silver coins out of a field near Wesseling, south of Cologne, and his metal detector was…
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Kelvin Doe built a battery, a generator and an FM radio station from Freetown’s trash and reached MIT at 15, and 14 years later he is building a free youth makerspace in Toronto
Kelvin Doe grew up in Freetown, Sierra Leone, and as a teenager he dug through the garbage for parts to build his…
Juan, 29, chose an olive farm near Tarragona, Spain, over a Barcelona apartment costing more than $1,100 a month, and now he sells organic olive oil and grows 80 percent of his vegetables
Juan keeps his organic olive oil in a little stone hut at the mouth of a tunnel in a Catalan hillside. "We…
A Burkina Faso farmer filled zaï pits with manure and grew a nearly 100-acre forest on abandoned land, and a study found termite tunnels made rain soak in 2 to 4 times faster
The sun was going down on another scorching day when journalist Mark Hertsgaard found Yacouba Sawadogo walking through his woods with a…
Naples Botanical Garden shows how an empty 2-liter soda bottle becomes a self-watering planter with a cotton wick, and a University of Kentucky extension guide says capillary action can lift water about 4 inches
"Have you ever wanted to grow herbs and vegetables, but you're worried about remembering to water them? There is a solution for…
A village of a few dozen winter residents on Stromboli reopened what Italian media call the smallest school in Europe for one 6-year-old girl, and her mother says the alternative was splitting the family
On September 10, 2026, a 6-year-old named Aysha went off to her first day of school in Ginostra, a tiny hamlet on…
A Brazilian mechanic pushed a water-filled bottle through a roof tile during 2002 blackouts, and lab tests show his solar bottle bulb passes 50 to 70 percent of incoming light and spreads it more evenly
Alfredo Moser was fixing cars in Uberaba, Brazil, when the 2002 blackouts left his workshop dark in the middle of the day.…
