Coastal Upwelling Is Making Oceans Acidify Faster
New research shows that coastal upwelling systems are accelerating ocean acidification well beyond global averages, thre...
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Plants That Mine Metals: Ferns Could Unlock Rare Earths
Researchers have discovered that certain ferns can concentrate rare earth elements (REEs) by forming microscopic monazit...
Mexico’s Ox Bel Ha: The Underwater Cave Keeps Growing
Deep beneath the Yucatán Peninsula, a watery labyrinth keeps yielding secrets. Sistema Ox Bel Ha — the Maya name for "Th...
Why Juvenile Pikas Are Disappearing in the Rockies
New long-term monitoring from Colorado raises alarm: the youngest members of a familiar alpine species — the American pi...
Parasitic Ant Sparks Matricide: How Queens Are Overthrown
A stealthy intruder can rewrite the rulebook inside an ant colony. New footage and research published in Current Biology...
Wild Wolf Uses Tool to Steal Crab Trap — First Evidence
In a remote stretch of British Columbia coastline, researchers captured a behavior that challenges assumptions about wol...
Golden Orb Two Miles Deep: Mysterious Find Off Alaska
During a 23‑day NOAA Ocean Exploration mission off Alaska, a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) encountered an object that ...
Why Africa Still Harbors Earth’s Largest Land Animals
Africa remains the planet’s premier refuge for the largest land animals. From elephants and giraffes to rhinos and hippo...
Century-Long Cold Spot Traced to Slowing Atlantic Currents
For more than a century, scientists have puzzled over a persistent pocket of unusually cold water south of Greenland tha...
Bumblebees Read Morse-Like Light Signals to Find Food
Scientists have taught bumblebees (Bombus terrestris) to distinguish short and long flashes of light — a simplified form...
Amazon Lakes Reached 41°C, Killing Hundreds of Dolphins
During the severe 2023 drought, several floodplain lakes in Brazil's central Amazon heated to temperatures higher than a...
How CO2 Fuels Kimberlite Eruptions That Bring Diamonds
Most natural diamonds reach the surface inside a rare, carrot-shaped volcanic rock called kimberlite. New computer model...
Mysterious Blue Volcanic Goo Hides Alkaline Life Clues
An unexpected discovery beneath the Pacific Ocean is rewriting ideas about where life can survive. Researchers examining...
Maya Cosmogram: Aguada Fénix, a 3,000-Year-Old Sky Map
New fieldwork at Aguada Fénix — the vast early Maya complex in Tabasco, Mexico — shows the site was planned as a cosmogr...
Hidden 11-Million-Year Meteor Impact Revealed in Australia
Tiny glass beads scattered across southern Australia are revealing the fingerprint of a previously unknown meteorite imp...
18th-Century Mechanical Vesuvius Rebuilt After 250 Years
An imaginative mechanical model of Mount Vesuvius conceived in 1775 has been constructed and activated for the first tim...
Nanotyrannus Confirmed: A Distinct, Deadly Small Tyrant
Decades of debate in paleontology may finally be settling: a fossil once thought to be a juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex is n...
Antarctic Ice Reveals 6-Million-Year-Old Trapped Air
Scientists drilling in the Allan Hills region of Antarctica have recovered glacial ice and air bubbles that date back ro...
Cyanobacteria Tied to Alzheimer-Like Damage in Dolphins
Dolphins found stranded on beaches may be suffering not only from physical exhaustion but also from brain damage that re...
Dimming the Sun Isn't Safe: Limits of Geoengineering
Spraying reflective particles into Earth’s upper atmosphere—an idea known as stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI)—has r...