Earth & Environment
El Niño is suppressing Atlantic hurricanes, but a quiet season may still pose risks
El Niño may be suppressing Atlantic hurricanes this year, but a quiet season doesn't mean a safe one.
Sep 11, 2026
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Lab Report
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Lab Report covers new research as it publishes. Fresh studies, first findings, and the occasional retraction, drawn from the journals and the institutions doing the work.
Earth & Environment
Recycled battery waste makes stronger cement when measured by carbon footprint
Trading strength for carbon savings: what happens when recycled battery waste becomes building material.
Sep 11, 2026
Technology
Engineers Built a House With Shredded Diapers Mixed Into the Walls
What if the bulky waste clogging landfills could be rebuilt into the walls that shelter us?
Sep 10, 2026
Physics
Researchers observe exotic ice that stays solid at temperatures hot enough to melt iron
Synchrotron diffraction reveals a hexagonal oxygen lattice in water ice above 200 gigapascals, although the mobile-hydrogen state is inferred rather than directly imaged.
Sep 10, 2026
Technology
Mexican Navy ship's masts snap off under Brooklyn Bridge in fatal miscalculation
A century-old Mexican Navy ship miscalculated its path under the Brooklyn Bridge by 31 feet—a mistake that cost two lives and raised urgent questions about who bears responsibility when historic vessels meet modern infrastructure.
Sep 10, 2026
Life
Tuna farms attract record gathering of 150 eagle rays scavenging scraps
Industrial aquaculture creates unexpected wildlife magnets, drawing massive gatherings of rays to feed on the scraps of farmed fish operations.
Sep 9, 2026
Life
Teenager's jar of jellyfish reveals previously unknown species to science
A teenager's casual dockside collection in Japan has become a formal scientific discovery, expanding our knowledge of one of the ocean's most elusive creatures.
Sep 9, 2026
Earth & Environment
11-year-old discovers ancient turtle species unknown to museums
When an 11-year-old's keen eye spotted something unusual in a Wyoming badlands, he uncovered a 48-million-year-old turtle that museums had never seen before.
Sep 9, 2026
Conservation
Georgia sank 3,500 recycled Christmas trees in one lake to help fish
By early 2022, more than 3,500 recycled Christmas trees had been placed in Lake Allatoona to create fish habitat. Volunteer Jimmy Moore strengthened the program by building durable bamboo pyramids that carried the trees into deeper water.
Sep 9, 2026
Life
Rescuers discovered why a hedgehog ballooned up and how to deflate it
Behind the bizarre balloon shape was a treatable culprit—and rescuers knew exactly how to deflate the problem.
Sep 9, 2026
Earth & Environment
Teenager's coral project grew into a global reef-saving blueprint
What started as a teenager's school project became a blueprint for saving dying coral reefs worldwide.
Sep 9, 2026
Earth & Environment
Scientists turned kitchen waste into a battery that survived 10,000 charges
A humble kitchen waste might outlast the batteries powering your phone.
Sep 9, 2026
Life
Botanists name rare parasitic "devil flower" after discovering fewer than 50 exist in the wild
A parasitic flower so rare and bizarre that scientists named it after the devil—and it may already be disappearing.
Sep 9, 2026
Social Sciences
Court revives Chobani "zero sugar" lawsuit over allulose ingredient
The Seventh Circuit held that federal law did not preempt the plaintiffs’ state-law claims and returned the case to the district court. It did not decide that Chobani’s label deceived consumers or that any product was unlawful.
Sep 8, 2026