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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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A green sea turtle found tangled in fishing line in the San Gabriel River — with a hook in its mouth and a dying flipper — has been nursed back t…
February 27, 2026British company First Light Fusion has validated that its FLARE reactor design can breed its own fuel — tritium — at a ratio of 1.8, the highest …
March 1, 2026The bright yellow Panamanian golden frog vanished from its native habitat in 2009, wiped out by a lethal fungus. Now, after 17 years of painstaki…
February 25, 2026For the first time, researchers in Spain have converted methane directly into a complex pharmaceutical compound, using a custom iron catalyst. Th…
February 27, 2026The eastern quoll — once wiped out on mainland Australia by invasive foxes — has successfully bred in the wild in Victoria for the first time in …
March 1, 2026Przewalski's horses — the only truly wild horse species on Earth — are settling into Kazakhstan's vast steppe after being reintroduced from Europ…
March 1, 2026OMI has developed a cathode material that charges batteries from zero to full in approximately three minutes, validated across thousands of cycle…
February 28, 2026India's highest court has ruled that menstrual hygiene is a fundamental right, requiring all schools to provide free period products to girls wit…
February 28, 2026Oxford-based First Light Fusion has validated that its FLARE reactor design achieves a tritium breeding ratio of 1.8 — meaning it produces nearly…
February 28, 2026When a dog fell 30 feet into a sinkhole in Allen County, Kentucky, a shelter worker and local volunteers rigged a pulley system, rappelled down, …
February 28, 2026Cutting two amino acids common in animal protein — methionine and cysteine — made mice burn significantly more energy through thermogenesis, near…
February 28, 2026In an extraordinary conservation milestone, 158 juvenile Floreana giant tortoises have been released onto Floreana Island in the Galápagos — the …
February 28, 2026Researchers at Flinders University have created a packaging film from milk protein that safely degrades in soil in just 13 weeks — offering a gen…
February 28, 2026A veteran diver and her daughter, working as citizen scientists, have found what researchers believe is the largest documented coral colony on Ea…
February 28, 2026Ty Sperle, a university student from British Columbia, has been cured of chronic granulomatous disease using a groundbreaking gene editing treatm…
February 28, 2026A Spanish research team has developed a way to transform methane — the main component of natural gas — into pharmaceutical building blocks, synth…
February 28, 2026Researchers at Fermilab and MIT Lincoln Laboratory have successfully trapped and manipulated ions using cryogenic electronics, clearing a critica…
February 28, 2026In one of the most ambitious ecosystem recovery projects ever attempted, 158 giant tortoises have been reintroduced to Floreana Island in the Gal…
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