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Aquarium releases probably seeded the Atlantic lionfish invasion
Aug 30, 2026
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Life
A moth dismissed by the leading expert on its group in 1927 as “better neglected” remained overlooked in London’s Natural History Museum…
Aug 30, 2026
Life
Water pumped up from Michigan gas wells as deep as 556 metres carried between 4,200 and 6,800 fungal cells in every millilitre, and…
Aug 30, 2026
Life
Wild chimpanzees in Ivory Coast’s Taï National Park combine a repertoire of 12 calls into meaningful sequences—and a 2025 study of 53…
Aug 30, 2026
Space
Mercury is almost airless, reaches 430°C by day and −180°C at night, yet MESSENGER data suggest its ancient crust contained volatile-rich…
Aug 30, 2026
Earth & Environment
Three schoolgirls in Kinsale pulled up a pea plant covered in warts and, instead of binning it, spent three years testing 13,000 seeds in a…
Aug 30, 2026
Earth & Environment
Kentucky released 1,541 elk onto the strip-mined coalfields of its eastern counties between 1997 and 2002, and the herd now runs about…
Aug 30, 2026
Social Sciences
More than 2.5 kilometres of previously unrecorded pre-Hispanic road, including a zigzagging main road of at least 1.2 kilometres, has been…
Aug 30, 2026
Earth & Environment
At Nevada's 1.8-million-panel Gemini solar farm, a rare desert milkvetch produced eight times more flowers and ten times more fruit than…
Aug 30, 2026
Earth & Environment
An analysis of 23,424 investment funds holding $25 trillion found 1.5 percent aligned with limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius…
By Jeanette Brown · Aug 30, 2026
Life
A school nature club fossicking on the shore of Kawhia Harbour in 2006 thought they had found a rusty boat propeller set in the mudstone
Aug 30, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Simple habits to regain control of your life, and what the science says 'control' really means
Aug 30, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Emotional tears may have evolved not merely to express sadness, but to change the behaviour of the people around us
Aug 30, 2026
Life
Humpback whales have been seen helping seals, sea lions and even sunfish escape orca attacks
By Daniel Moran · Aug 30, 2026