An international team of astronomers led by University of Galway, has discovered the likely site of a new planet in formation, most likely a gas giant planet up to a few times the mass of Jupiter.
Window-Sized Device Taps the Air for Safe Drinking Water
MIT engineers developed an atmospheric water harvester that produces fresh water anywhere — even Death Valley, California.
A Tornado’s Mark on Kentucky
Amid a spate of severe weather across the U.S. Midwest, Southeast, and Mid-Atlantic regions on May 16, 2025, a deadly tornado tore across three counties in Kentucky.
Rings of Time: Unearthing Climate Secrets From Ancient Trees
Deep in the swamps of the American Southeast stands a quiet giant: the bald cypress (Taxodium distichum).
Lizards of Madagascar
After the island of Madagascar drifted away from India 88 million years ago, isolating it from all other landmasses, its flora and fauna evolved in seclusion.
University of Tartu Researchers Have Found a Way to Give Old Smartphones a New Life
A recently published article by researchers at the University of Tartu Institute of Computer Science introduces a novel approach to reducing electronic waste and advancing sustainable data processing: turning old smartphones into tiny data centres.
When Rivers Take a Weird Turn
Some rules of hydrology are made to be broken.
Groundbreaking Study Maps the Movements of Marine Megafauna
Virginia Tech joined a global research team that tracked more than 100 species and identified ocean hotspots critical for protecting threatened marine megafauna that fall beyond current conservation zones.
Smithsonian Research Reveals that Probiotics Slow Spread of Deadly Disease Decimating Caribbean Reefs
Scientists with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History have discovered that a bacterial probiotic helps slow the spread of stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) in already infected wild corals in Florida.
Guardian Ag’s Crop-Spraying Drone is Replacing Dangerous Pilot Missions
Every year during the growing season, thousands of pilots across the country climb into small planes loaded with hundreds of pounds of pesticides and fly extremely close to the ground at upward of 140 miles an hour, unloading their cargo onto rows of corn, cotton, and soybeans.