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A gust front crossed Melbourne at 6pm on 21 November 2016. Over the next 30 hours, public hospitals in Melbourne and Geelong recorded 476 more asthma related admissions than normal, a 992% increase on the three year average.
By Justin Brown · Oct 9, 2026
A woman started dancing in the street, and the city's answer was to hire musicians. Its own records tell a smaller, stranger story than the legend. And one researcher thinks it looked more like a ritual than an illness.
By Nato Lagidze · Oct 8, 2026
The eelgrass meadow that scientists brought back to the shallow bays behind Virginia's barrier islands now covers 4,792.08 hectares, about 11,800 acres, and it is still spreading on its own.
By Justin Brown · Oct 8, 2026
In 2018 two researchers compared corn farms in the northern United States and found that the ones farming regeneratively grew 29 percent less grain than the conventional farms, and made more money anyway.
By Justin Brown · Oct 7, 2026
A century of beekeeping wisdom may have misidentified which bees suffer most when winter comes—and blamed the wrong culprit for forcing them to huddle.
By Kiran Journals · Sep 25, 2026
Eleven years of surveys on one family-owned field suggest species-rich meadow can return to former farmland without a seed packet, though the researchers cannot yet explain how several of its rarer plants got there.
Sep 24, 2026
Round-the-clock cameras at Monarto Safari Park caught a feast-and-fast rhythm in a small group of zoo lions, and a rise in pacing over the study whose daily peaks the authors tie to keeper routines.
Sep 24, 2026
Does time flow backward at the quantum level, and if so, what stops the universe from running in reverse?
By Josh Mitteldorf · Sep 23, 2026
Toxic industrial sites don't have to stay dead—one Massachusetts town transformed a poisoned gasworks into something that generates power instead of peril.
By Ainura Kalau · Sep 23, 2026
