🇺🇸 United States
Scientists crack the mystery of how ice actually forms
For decades, the leading theories describing how ice crystals grow in supercooled water have been wildly inacc
🔬 Wild Discoveries
Wild Discoveries
New species, strange research, scientific surprises, and discoveries that expand the map of reality.
🇳🇴 Norway
Cleaner Air and Economic Growth Now Go Together in 80% of Big Cities
For decades, rising prosperity meant more cars, more factories, and dirtier air. New satellite evidence now sh
🇮🇷 Iran
Iran's Lakes Are Drying Up Faster Than Satellite Images Can Track
Iran's lakes are disappearing so quickly that satellite images taken just months apart show shorelines retreat
🇺🇸 United States
Soundscapes reveal what satellites miss in global conservation
A forest can look perfectly healthy from space while its animal life is already vanishing. That gap between wh
🇨🇳 China
Desert moss gene spliced into Xinjiang cotton to fight fungus
A team of Chinese scientists has taken a gene from a desert moss that can survive extreme drought and heat and
🌍 World
Disasters cost $2.3 trillion when nature's losses are counted
The official price tag of global disasters sits at roughly $202 billion each year. That number misses most of
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Octopus invasion reaches Scotland as UK waters warm
Octopuses are showing up in places they have never been seen before along the coast of the United Kingdom, inc
🇦🇺 Australia
Three New Planking Mantis Species Found in Australia and PNG
Three new species of praying mantis have been discovered in Australia and Papua New Guinea, and they do someth
🇳🇵 Nepal
Sacred forest in Nepal hides a rare Chinese pangolin
A camera trap set in a sacred community forest in Nepal has captured an image of a Chinese pangolin, one of th
🌍 Seychelles
Tuna populations bounce back but global fisheries face new threats
Tuna are rebounding in several regions, but the recovery is fragile and far from complete. Scientists and fish
🇺🇸 United States
Math Finally Solves Schrödinger's Century Old Color Puzzle
A century old puzzle about how humans see color has been cracked by mathematicians. The breakthrough proves th
🇺🇸 United States
Webb finds hidden methane on interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS
A comet from another star system just surprised astronomers with hidden methane and exotic chemistry unlike al
🇩🇪 Germany
Goethe’s amber collection hides a 40-million-year-old ant
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the German literary giant who died in 1832, never knew that one of his amber speci
🇱🇦 Laos
Plain of Jars Mystery Solved: Stone Urns Held Human Remains
For nearly a century, the Plain of Jars in north-central Laos has puzzled archaeologists and travelers alike.
