Climate hazards disrupted school for 1 in 10 students in 2025: UNICEF
More than 171 million students affected globally with girls disproportionately impacted.
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Western Germany's Mannheim area shaken by 3.3-magnitude earthquake
An earthquake measuring at least 3. 3 shook the Mannheim area in western Germany, according to the GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences and the regional eart...
Scientists warmed Minnesota forest trees by 3.4°C for years expecting respiration to surge 23%; the trees adapted and erased nearly 80% of that increase
Nature & Environment News: In a Minnesota forest, researchers turned up the heat, not for days or weeks, but for years. Beneath the trees, heating cables warmed the soil, while .
New standards for masculinity are stacked against men’s health
This week’s Optimizer delves into how new standards of masculinity incentivize men to turn themselves into science xperiments.
Meet Daniel Zhang: The 17-year-old San Diego cancer researcher who turned treatment decisions into a 72-card game and has helped bring STEM education to 1,500 children
Science News: In a San Diego high school classroom, a deck of 72 cards sits on a desk, each one representing a different cancer treatment option, side effect or pat.
A lifelong Taylor Swift fan helped describe 12 new insect species; she named a new genus and four species after the singer and her albums
Wildlife & Biodiversity News: Taylor Swift has inspired songs, fashion and fan culture around the world, but her latest namesake comes from an unexpected corner of science: a newly.
In 2023, researchers tested human voices, predator calls, dog barks and flashing lights on elk and deer in British Columbia; human shouts scared them most
Wildlife & Biodiversity News: On the edge of farm fields in British Columbia, where cultivated land meets forest and mountain, farmers have long struggled with deer that slip in at.
In 1974, an Australian ranger proposed turning a service bridge into a wildlife corridor; 52 years later, it opened over a motorway carrying 40,000 vehicles a day, reconnecting two national parks
Wildlife & Biodiversity News: An idea proposed by an Australian park ranger more than five decades ago has finally become a wildlife crossing. In 1974, Royal National Park ranger B.
In 1982, one of the world's most remote islands built a wind turbine to cut diesel use; 408 days later, a gale destroyed it
Experiments & Discoveries News: A small wind turbine became part of an unusual energy project on Tristan da Cunha in 1982, when the remote island community explored how renewable tec.
A stronger-than-normal El Nino alarms scientists over Galápagos wildlife
The prediction that this season’s El Nino phenomenon will be stronger than normal has alarmed the Ecuadorian scientific community, which has warned of its impact on the flora and fauna of the Galapagos Islands, home to the highest concentration of species not found elsewhere on Earth.
Scientists found a surprising use for apple waste. It removed up to 100% of toxic lead from water in lab tests
Experiments & Discoveries News: Lead contamination in water is being studied through different approaches, including the use of waste materials that can help remove metal ions from w.
Scientists will deploy 70 electronic tags on 3 vulnerable shark species around Britain, pairing new tracking data with anglers’ catch records dating back to 1953
Wildlife & Biodiversity News: Britain’s coastal waters are home to more shark species than many people might expect, but scientists still know surprisingly little about how several.
Scientists found solar-tracking panels can make desert soil store more carbon; the key is how their moving shadows redistribute water
Nature & Environment News: Solar panels that follow the Sun could be doing more than producing clean energy. Scientists have found that these moving panels can also help desert .
Artemis II moonshot commander and pilot are hanging up their astronaut suits at NASA
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The two NASA astronauts who led the Artemis II moonshot earlier this year are stepping away from spaceflight.
In 1864, Tasmania introduced brown trout from England for sport; 162 years later, conservationists are creating trout-free havens for a native fish with only about 6,000 left
Wildlife & Biodiversity News: More than 160 years after Tasmania introduced British brown trout to create a major recreational fishery, conservation workers are building artificial.
In 1947, fruit flies were sent into space using captured German rocket. Decades later, NASA studied how space affects immunity
Experiments & Discoveries News: A tiny insect became one of the earliest living passengers sent towards space, long before astronauts were routinely orbiting Earth. In 1947, fruit fl.
Massachusetts hits data centers with new clean power rules | TechCrunch
Massachusetts has become the third state in as many months to slap new restrictions on data center development.
A narwhal can grow a single 10-feet tooth through its upper lip; scientists used 3D X-rays and 3 particle accelerators to discover how nature's only straight tusk stays straight
Wildlife & Biodiversity News: A unicorn may be a mythical creature, but nature made something very similar under the Arctic ice. Wondering what? Well, the narwhal has a strange tus.