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Getting to The Cedars, an ecological preserve in California’s Sonoma county, is a slog. Multiple rivers and creeks must be crossed, and it can be tough going on an often storm-destroyed road. But it’s home to a rich diversity of species found nowhere else on Earth that are uniquely adapted to serpen...
Texas-based ZettaJoule has secured formal support from Aramco Services Company for its high-temperature gas-cooled reactor (HTGR), a project designed to produce process heat reaching 950°C (1742°F), which is 600°C (1112°F) higher than output from conventional water-cooled models. This advanced small...
Michael Bolton’s incomparable voice and killer love songs helped make him one of the biggest-selling soft rock artists of all time. He toured the world and played to sold-out crowds for decades. But life changed in a blink for Michael when he received a shocking diagnosis. In April 2025, he opened u...
Amid renewed hostilities, can peace be restored between the two countries?Originally published on Global VoicesBorder crossing between Cambodia and Thailand. Photo by Eric Molina on Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0). This article by Duanghathai Buranajaroenkij was originally published by Peace News Netw...
Since 2023, South Korea’s largest island — Jeju Island — has been developing legislation to grant constitutional rights to approximately 120 Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins in their coastal waters. It would be a first for the country in granting animals “legal personhood.” Indo-Pacific bottlenose d...
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Many of us have daily routines that keep us going. For 78-year-old Charlie Hicks, that includes ordering food daily from the Shrimp Basket restaurant in Pensacola, Florida. He’s a familiar face and orders the exact same thing every day. For the past 10 years, Charlie’s ordered a cup of gumbo, light ...
A team at UNIGE has uncovered a geometric structure once thought to be purely theoretical at the core of quantum materials, opening the door to major advances in future electronics. How can information be processed almost instantly, or electrical current flow without energy loss? To reach these g...
Farmer and chef Caroline Radice remembers waking up to frantic text messages one morning in October 2017: wildfires were rapidly moving through the hills surrounding her farm in northern California. She evacuated her younger brother from where he lived on one side of the farm as flames burned on eit...
A new study shows that promising single-crystal battery materials degrade for reasons scientists hadn’t fully recognized before. Scientists at Argonne National Laboratory and the UChicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (UChicago PME) have identified the source of a long-standing problem...
Separation from loved ones can alter brain chemistry, disrupt nervous system regulation, and impact long-term relationship patterns. Unfortunately, this Reddit user knows all about it, since his fianc e left him right before their wedding. No goodbye, no explanation, no closure. But after 16 years, ...
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A long-standing explanation for magnetoresistance may be incomplete. New evidence suggests a universal interfacial mechanism is at play. A major advance in spintronics came with the discovery of unusual magnetoresistance (UMR). In this effect, the electrical resistance of a heavy metal changes wh...
Founder s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. For a movement so often framed by loss—and confronting a particularly difficult moment—conservation is relearning how to talk about itself. This shift may signal someth...
The Queen has officially been dethroned, and people have a lot to say. For the first time since Billboard launched the Global 200 in September 2020, Mariah Carey’s All I Want for Christmas has been the highest-ranking holiday tune, topping the charts 19 times since December 2020. But this year, thin...
Every once in a while, a gem of an old performance starts trending online, and you wonder, how have I never seen that before? Michael Jackson is one of the most popular entertainers ever to live, and Roberta Flack is one of the most prominent singers of the ‘70s, so where has their magical performan...
New research digs into how Mars atmosphere shapes its sedimentary landscapes. The surface and atmosphere of Mars have seen many changes over its 4.5-billion-year history. While the planet s current atmosphere is very thin (about 0.6% of Earth s), it was once thick enough to sustain liquid water. Acc...
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McKinnon Galloway is a health advocate and public speaker raising awareness about neurofibromatosis (NF2), a genetic disorder causing tumors to grow on nerves. In an Instagram post, she recounts her experience navigating cancer, surgeries, and other health challenges that began when she was just 16....
Scientists have captured the first direct images of colliding objects in a neighboring star system. Astronomers have seen the aftermath of two powerful collisions within a 20-year period around a nearby star called Fomalhaut.The events — the first was detected in 2004 and the second in 2023 — are th...
There are plenty of annual recap lists circulating around this time of year, but few of them involve the amount of work put in by California’s Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI). Over the past year, researchers guided remotely operated vehicles more than 3,000 feet down to survey the v...
There was a time, once, when nearly every small town in Ontario was connected by trains. Those days are long gone now, but in the age of the automobile, these former rail lines now connect the communities of the City of Kawartha Lakes (a municipality in central Ontario of scattered towns, with no ci...
December 19, 2025 The GIST New 'cloaking device' concept shields electronics from disruptive magnetic fields by University of Leicester edited by Sadie Harley, reviewed by Andrew Zinin Sadie Harley scientific editor Meet our editorial team Behind our editorial process Andrew Zinin lead editor Meet our editorial team...
