Animals
African forest elephants' disappearance threatens the wood that lines piano keys
By Daniel Moran · Sep 17, 2026
September 2026
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Life
Sea slug severs its own head and regrows a new body with beating heart
Sep 17, 2026
Earth & Environment
Tractor trains haul fuel across Antarctica at walking pace to spare precious cargo flights
Sep 17, 2026
Earth & Environment
A gardener's slug fix became Scotland's million-pound ecological crisis
Sep 17, 2026
Space
Webb's sunshade blocks three celestial bodies at once, but astronauts can never reach it
Sep 17, 2026
Earth & Environment
Dead battery waste becomes seawater desalting filter that removes 99.6 percent salt
Sep 17, 2026
Technology
Retired car batteries are becoming the grid's most valuable energy storage
Sep 17, 2026
Life
Government stocked islands with foxes to harvest fur, then spent decades trying to save the birds
Sep 17, 2026
Earth & Environment
Wind farm cameras caught 6 bird collisions—all happened in daylight, none at night
Sep 17, 2026
Earth & Environment
AI data centers are driving up electricity costs for American farms
Sep 17, 2026
Earth & Environment
One electrical tower hosted nine white stork nests, straining Spain's power grid protection efforts
Sep 17, 2026
Earth & Environment
Rural Virginia rejected a massive data center project that threatened its farming economy
Sep 17, 2026
Life
More than one in three sharks and rays now face extinction threat
Sep 16, 2026
Technology
Upside-down stamps from 1918 became the rarest, most valuable in history
By Justin Brown · Sep 16, 2026