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...
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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...
Nature’s Toxic Arms Race: How Animals Beat Poisons
In the tangled ecosystems of the Amazon and beyond, animals are locked in a biochemical arms race. Predators, prey and p...
MXenes Could Unlock Cleaner Ammonia and Renewables Now
Scientists are turning to a surprising class of two-dimensional compounds—MXenes—to rethink how we produce fuels and ess...
Greenland Is Shifting: How Ice Loss Reshapes the Island
Greenland's solid ground is not as solid as it looks. Decades of ice build-up, melting, and a deep-time rebound from the...
Two-Headed Flatworms Reveal Body-Axis Reversal Phenomenon
Flatworms are already regeneration superstars in biology labs — cut one in half and you often get two whole animals. Now...
Ocean's Missing Plastic: How Microplastics Sink Away
When you picture plastic in the ocean, bottles and bags floating on the surface probably come to mind. But that visible ...
Unexpected Life Under Arctic Ice Could Shift Climate Models
Scientists have found surprising microbial communities living beneath Arctic sea ice — organisms that carry the genetic ...
Southern Ocean's Hidden Heat Could Trigger a Global Burp
The Southern Ocean has quietly soaked up a century of heat and carbon from human activity. New climate simulations sugge...
North Atlantic Right Whale: A Fragile Recovery at Sea
The North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis), one of the planet's most endangered large marine mammals, appears ...
Mosquitoes Reach Iceland: First Wild Record Stirs Alarm
Iceland — long counted among the last mosquito-free places on Earth — has recorded wild mosquitoes for the first time. E...
Glowing Sugars Reveal How Ocean Microbes Store Carbon
Researchers have developed a fluorescent molecular probe that lights up when marine sugars are broken down, allowing sci...
Antarctica Nears Tipping Points: Collapse, Sea Rise Loom
New research warns Antarctica is slipping toward rapid, interconnected shifts that could reshape global climate, ocean c...
Sea Levels Rising Faster Than in 4,000 Years: Risks
New research led by Rutgers University shows modern sea level rise is accelerating faster than at any time in the last f...
2024 Carbon Spike: Greenhouse Gases Reach Record Highs
Atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations surged to unprecedented levels in 2024, pushing global warming risks higher an...
Ancient Enigma: Salterella and the Birth of Skeletons
Salterella is a tiny, oddball fossil from the early Cambrian that is forcing scientists to rethink how the first animals...
Wild Honeybees Now Endangered in the European Union
Wild populations of the western honeybee (Apis mellifera) have been officially classified as endangered within the Europ...