Scientists May Have Finally “Seen” Dark Matter
For nearly a century, dark matter has been one of the greatest mysteries in all of science. We know it exists as it makes up an estimated 85% of the universe’s total mass and acts as invisible gravitational scaffolding holding galaxies together, but no one has ever directly observed it. Until now, possibly. Professor Tomonori […]
Coral Reefs Are Hiding An Almost Entirely Unstudied Universe Of Potential Medicine
Scientists at the University of Galway and an international consortium have discovered that coral reefs contain an almost entirely unstudied universe of microbial life, publishing a study in Nature that reconstructed the genomes of 645 microbial species from 99 coral reefs across 32 Pacific islands, with more than 99 percent of those species never having […]
A Rare Superbloom Is Turning Part Of Redwood National Park Purple And There Are Only Weeks To See It
Something extraordinary and fleeting is happening right now in Northern California, where the Bald Hills grasslands above the redwood canopy in Redwood National Park have erupted into a rare lupine superbloom, turning a stretch of elevated landscape off a remote road near Orick into a sweeping sea of purple, blue, and white wildflowers that can […]
For The First Time In History 60 Nations Gathered To Discuss Phasing Out Fossil Fuels
Something historic is happening right now in the coastal city of Santa Marta, Colombia, where more than 60 nations have gathered for the first international conference ever dedicated entirely to the question of how the world should phase out fossil fuels. The gathering, co-hosted by Colombia and the Netherlands, was born out of frustration with […]
Happy National Arbor Day! The 154-Year-Old Holiday That Asks You To Plant Just One Tree
April 24 is National Arbor Day, one of the oldest and most quietly powerful environmental holidays in the world, and a perfect opportunity to do something genuinely good for the planet in about 20 minutes. The holiday was born in Nebraska in 1872, when journalist and tree enthusiast J. Sterling Morton convinced the state to […]
Happy Earth Day! This Year, There’s More Reasons To Be Hopeful
Today is Earth Day 2026, and while the headlines about our planet can feel overwhelming, there is genuine, data-backed reason to celebrate. The theme this year is “Our Power, Our Planet”, a rallying cry for the global clean energy movement, and the numbers show that movement is winning. According to a new report from the […]
A Court Saved Americas Largest Rainforest From Logging
A federal judge has delivered a major victory for one of the most extraordinary places on earth, dismissing a lawsuit from timber industry groups that sought to force large-scale old-growth logging in the Tongass National Forest in Alaska. The Tongass is the largest national forest in the United States and the largest remaining temperate rainforest […]
Scientists Just Found Four Ancient Snakes Curled Together And It Rewrites History
Paleontologists digging in western Wyoming made a discovery so rare that researchers are calling it an extraordinary window into a world that vanished tens of millions of years ago. Field crews unearthed four ancient snake fossils so remarkably well preserved that their skulls, ribs, and tails were still arranged in near-perfect anatomical order, a condition […]
Dragonflies Can See A Color Humans Cannot And It Could Change How Doctors Treat Disease
Dragonflies have been darting through the sky for hundreds of millions of years, and scientists just discovered they have been doing it while seeing a color that no other insect on earth can detect, and that finding could have remarkable implications for medicine. Researchers at Osaka Metropolitan University in Japan found that dragonflies possess a […]
What Moves Faster Than Light Is Not What You Think
Physicists have long predicted that certain things can appear to move faster than the speed of light without breaking any laws of physics, and a research team has now captured one of these events on camera for the very first time. The phenomenon involves what scientists call optical vortices, which are tiny dark holes that […]