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Bonaire fenced forest to keep goats out; years later, only 22 of 60 tree species returned

In 1999, just 15 island foxes remained on each of two California islands; captive breeding...

Actor Rob Riggle explores mysteries with archaeologists, from shipwrecks to lost civilisations

Quote of the day by Carl Sagan: "Science is a way of thinking much more than..."

Scientists tracked 21 oilbirds in Venezuela, and five of them left their cave for up to 73 days

Dutch scientists find tin-based solar breakthrough keeping hot electrons 1,000x longer

A world first: Man lives withpig kidney for nine months

After grandmother loses sight, teen builds $170 AI glasses

3,200-year-old inscription may help locate Egypt’s lost city of Mesen

T. rex had human-like body temperature, fossil teeth reveal warm-blooded predator

Black Eye Galaxy Image: Webb and Hubble reveal dusty star-forming band; traces ancient merger

Fourteen tail vertebrae found in Spain replaces North America as the only Diplodocus site

Human activity adds more nitrogen than nature in a quarter of coastal waterways

Quote of the day by Albert Einstein: "Everything should be made as simple as..."

Three Harvard students built a low-cost headset that screens concussions fast

How conservation helped Iberian lynx recover from just 62 to over 2,000

Animals attacked even unrealistic caterpillar models, researchers found

38 Japanese macaques moved to Austria in 1996 grew to 160 in 23 years

Natural wool slowed glacier melt almost as well as synthetic covers

Former Australian miner spotted Saturn ripple in 2024; two years later, co-authored 10-sided wave

Britain’s butterfly boom comes with a warning for next year

Quote of the day by Nikola Tesla: "Life is and will ever remain an equation..."

Scientists turned a dead mosquito into a microscopic 3D-printing nozzle

A guppy flew in space for five days and later produced seven healthy broods

Sudan planted Acacia senegal; older trees stored more carbon, grasslands held more moisture

Rowan Atkinson waited 16 years to move into his Richard Meier glass house

Singapore researchers use fruit peels to recover metals from old batteries

Britain’s wasps are unusually scarce this summer, leaving researchers struggling to find them

Why some bats live 50 years: Longevity genes overlap with cancer and virus defenses

Scientists built a sponge pulling water from dry air; yields 1.72L per kg/day

Abandoned mine pools could cool AI data centres; one Pennsylvania site handled 30.6 MW

189 years after import, possums damage half of trees in rare New Zealand forest

Australia’s Green Triangle forests grew; wetlands now face falling water levels

Trout stocking pushed Sierra Nevada yellow-legged frogs from 92% of their range

11-year-old inventor builds $38 moss filter that removes up to 95% of lead

Deer Learn To Ignore Deterrents: Human shouts scare best; habituation soon blunts effect

School project revives lost kelp forest with help from 15,000 students and 250 divers

In 2019, scientists shook earthworms and found waves oscillating at half the driving frequency

In 1870, Goats were left on a Seychelles Island; by 1920, they were forcibly eradicated

Crayfish invaded Crater Lake 100+ years ago; newt now vanishing from 95% shore

Wisconsin restored old farmland into prairie and rare bumblebees began returning

Scientists turn human poop into concrete that gets 42% stronger

Meet Vivian Liu, the 17-year-old who turned origami into a kindness movement across 50 nations

Fruit flies in space: How a 1947 experiment helped NASA study immunity

Underwater sensors capture porpoises’ rare distress calls off Cornwall

Sea otters returned to a California estuary; eelgrass expanded 600%, marsh-edge erosion slowed 69%

Mexico restored 1 million hectares; plant survival nearly doubled to 64%

Klamath River salmon reclaim 88% of historic range after dams are removed

Antarctica gained 695 billion tons in 2021-23 as tropical warmth drove heavy snowfall

AI predicts fusion plasma instability 200 ms early, stops it in time