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A study using turkey tail mushrooms as a natural filtration system has successfully removed E. coli from a polluted river in Devon, England, and the approach is already being put into practice.
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A UK wildlife park has welcomed Sumatran tiger cubs, a significant moment for a critically endangered subspecies with only around 400 individuals left in the wild.
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NASA has been testing new autonomous driving and navigation capabilities for rovers designed to explore the Moon and Mars, bringing crewed and robotic exploration closer together.
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The World Happiness Report 2026 has ranked Finland first among 140+ nations for the ninth consecutive year. Researchers attribute the country's r…
March 20, 2026 · Finland · happiness
In 2002, the Iberian lynx was down to 94 individuals in two isolated patches of southern Spain, making it the most endangered wild cat species on…
March 20, 2026 · Iberian lynx · endangered species
River otters, once nearly wiped out from most of the Great Lakes region, have made a sweeping comeback. Thriving populations are now documented a…
March 20, 2026 · river otters · Great Lakes
The sailback houndshark hadn't been confirmed alive since 1970. Scientists had no idea whether it still existed. A fisher in Papua New Guinea rem…
March 20, 2026 · shark · rediscovery
In the Sundarbans delta — home to one of Earth's last wild Bengal tiger populations — women-led community groups have planted over 100,000 mangro…
March 20, 2026 · mangroves · tigers
Eight-year-old Amelia Kolpa from Rowley Regis, England, has neuroblastoma and a wish: to break a world record on her 8th birthday. She asked for …
March 3, 2026
Griffith University researchers have achieved a world first: an AI-powered camera embedded in a road sign that detects koalas crossing in real ti…
March 3, 2026
For decades, tens of thousands of HIV patients resistant to modern treatments have been left behind — taking 10+ pills a day with difficult side …
March 3, 2026Nicola Doran from Donaghadee, Northern Ireland, had her leg amputated in June 2025 after years of chronic pain. Just months later, the 52-year-ol…
March 3, 2026Kenya's Brigid Kosgei stormed to victory at the 2026 Tokyo Marathon in 2:14:29 — smashing the previous course record by more than a minute and a …
March 3, 2026ThinkRare, an AI developed at Ottawa's CHEO hospital, silently scans children's medical records in real time and flags those who may have undiagn…
March 3, 2026Researchers at MUSC have secured $1 million to develop a revolutionary therapy: lab-grown insulin cells protected by engineered immune 'bodyguard…
March 3, 2026Cold Spring Harbor researchers used data from monkey neurons to compress a 60-million-variable AI vision model down to just 10,000 variables. The…
March 3, 2026A frightened, injured dog trapped in a water retention pond was located using thermal imaging and rescued by a coordinated team of firefighters a…
March 3, 2026For the first time since the mid-1800s, giant tortoises roam the Galápagos island of Floreana. 158 animals — bred from survivors found on a neigh…
March 2, 2026First Light Fusion has validated a tritium breeding ratio of 1.8 for its FLARE power plant concept — the highest ever announced for any fusion sy…
March 2, 2026The eastern quoll was declared extinct on mainland Australia in 1963. Now, in a fenced nature reserve in Victoria's Grampians region, they are br…
March 1, 2026Researchers at the University of Liège have identified a single genetic regulator — called MafB — that guides the body's immune 'cleaning crew' t…
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