The Teamwork Between These Sea Animals Is Stunning Scientists
Scientists studying orcas off the coast of British Columbia have discovered something remarkable happening between two different species that normally don’t cooperate this way. Researchers led by marine scientist Sarah Fortune used drones, underwater microphones, and special cameras to record northern resident orcas hunting with Pacific white sided dolphins in what appears to be genuine […]
High Seas Treaty Will Protect 30% Of The High Seas In 2026
The world’s first treaty to protect marine life in international waters will officially become law in early 2026 after reaching a major milestone when the 60th country ratified the agreement. The High Seas Treaty, which took two decades to create, aims to protect 30 percent of the open ocean by establishing Marine Protected Areas in […]
Cardboard And Soil Combined Beats Concrete
Australian researchers have invented a revolutionary way to build walls using nothing but recycled cardboard boxes, dirt, and water that costs one third the price of concrete while producing 75 percent less carbon pollution. The team at RMIT University calls their creation cardboard confined rammed earth, and it works by packing moist soil inside cardboard […]
Prehistoric Bees Made Nests In Animal Bones
In a Caribbean cave scientists made a groundbreaking discovery that rewrites what we know about ancient bee behavior. About 20,000 years ago, bees living in Cueva de Mono in the Dominican Republic created their nests not in soft soil like their modern descendants, but inside the empty tooth sockets of prey animals eaten by giant […]
They Returned After Being Declared Extinct In 1996
The Campbell’s keeled glass-snail was officially declared extinct in 1996, joining the tragic list of lost species like the thylacine. But in 2020, everything changed when a Norfolk Island citizen scientist sent surprising photos to Dr. Isabel Hyman at the Australian Museum, showing an unusually large snail he’d discovered hidden under a decayed palm frond. […]
This Planet Has Diamond Rain And Scientists Are Baffled
Astronomers have discovered something 2,000 light years from Earth that has left them completely confused and wondering if it’s an entirely new type of space object. The planet, called PSR J2322-2650b, is shaped like a lemon with a pointy tip just like the fruit you’d find in your kitchen. Scientists believe the intense gravity from […]
NASA’s Christmas Project Comparing Vast And Small
A microscopic Christmas tree is the seasonal highlight of a remarkable science project called New Perspectives that found scary comparisons between the vast universe and the tiny microscopic world we cannot see with the naked. The project takes space based images from Chandra which is one of NASA’s Great Observatories alongside Hubble and James Webb […]
How 5,000 Red Solo Cups Became Sweaters
Lauren Choi looked at thousands of red Solo cups littering her Johns Hopkins campus and saw something nobody else did, building a machine during her senior year that could transform those notorious party cups into comfortable textile filaments for clothing production. The engineering student partnered with campus fraternities to collect thousands of red cups as […]
The 15 Minute City Concept
Concordia University researchers in Montreal have proven that neighborhoods can become completely self sufficient in vegetable production while slashing carbon emissions by 98 percent by dedicating just 13.8 percent of rooftops, 10 percent of building walls, and 15 percent of unused lots for growing fresh food locally. The groundbreaking study published in the journal Sustainability […]
Scientists Made Real Leather Without Harming Any Animals
A North Carolina biotech company called Cultivated Biomaterials has successfully produced lab grown cow leather from the cells of Angel, a Black Angus cow living at Sweet Farm animal sanctuary in upstate New York, marking the first time consumers can purchase leather products from an animal that’s still alive and thriving. Biomedical engineer George Engelmayr […]