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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 Welsh Parliament has passed a landmark Homelessness and Social Housing Allocation Bill that shifts the focus from crisis response to early in…
February 27, 2026The Akuntsu people of the Brazilian Amazon were down to just three women. Many expected the tribe to vanish entirely. Then in December, the young…
February 27, 2026Stanford Medicine researchers have cured Type 1 diabetes in mice using a combined transplant of blood stem cells and insulin-producing islet cell…
February 27, 2026Chinese Academy of Sciences researchers have shattered the world record for kesterite solar cells — made from cheap, abundant copper, zinc, tin, …
February 27, 2026158 hybrid giant tortoises have been released on Floreana Island in the Galápagos, marking the return of the species to the island for the first …
February 27, 2026When pediatric cardiac anesthesiologist Amy Beethe met a small, underweight 4-year-old who had arrived alone for heart surgery at Children's Nebr…
February 26, 2026UC Santa Barbara chemists created a lightweight molecule that captures sunlight, locks it into strained chemical bonds, and releases it as heat o…
February 24, 2026Animal behaviourists from Palm Beach Zoo travelled to Zimbabwe and taught anti-poacher scouts to give eyedrops to a wild white rhino named Thuza …
February 27, 2026University of Waterloo researchers created a bio-inspired iron catalyst that uses sunlight to convert common plastics — including PVC, PP, PE and…
February 24, 2026Chinese scientists used lab-grown cyanobacteria — 3.5-billion-year-old microorganisms — to convert barren desert sand near the Taklamakan Desert …
February 22, 2026EPFL scientists used a three-gene cocktail to reset the molecular clock of specific memory-storing neurons, successfully restoring both recent an…
February 15, 2026158 juvenile giant tortoises descended from the Floreana subspecies have been released on the Galápagos island of Floreana — the first time the s…
February 20, 2026By restoring traditional cattle herding and a GPS-based lion early warning system, communities in Botswana's Okavango Delta have slashed cattle l…
February 24, 2026A landmark randomized controlled trial in Singapore proved that releasing mosquitoes carrying Wolbachia bacteria cut the insect population by 77%…
February 23, 2026Oregon State University researchers have developed a method to observe and reverse the metal-driven protein clumping linked to Alzheimer's diseas…
February 24, 2026Indian teacher Rouble Nagi has won the $1 million Global Teacher Prize for establishing over 800 learning centers across India's slums and villag…
February 21, 2026A government-backed deal will transform east London's Barking Eurohub into an international logistics hub, unlocking £15 million in investment an…
February 25, 2026MIT researchers have built a multi-material 3D-printing platform that can fabricate a complete electric motor in hours using five materials costi…
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