Science & Sustainability Correspondent
Lina translates complex research into stories of hope, covering climate solutions, medical advances, and biodiversity wins.
Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered a well-preserved Byzantine-era city in the western desert.The fourth-century quarters had residential and religious structures, including a basilica-style church in the Dakhla oasis. Archaeologists also found coins, pottery fragments and tools.Separately, 18 an...
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Scientists have uncovered a previously unknown Martian rock containing a mineral never before found on the Red Planet....
After a two week expedition off the coast of Brazil, an international team of researchers discovered 31 new marine species, including a fast-moving gossamer worm, a creepy fish, and other organisms that look straight out of outer space. Take a look and learn more about some of the newly-discovered c...
Witek Morek is closely inspecting an old brick-and-flint wall on the Cambridgeshire campus of the Wellcome Sanger Institute.“We are going to use a very advanced tool designed by bioengineers and evolved over millions of years – the human hand – and grab some moss, and put it in an envelope,” he says...
A three-armed spacecraft rockets into orbit to rescue a NASA telescope that’s in danger of crashing back to Earth.NASA has launched a robotic mission to try to prevent one of its ageing telescopes from burning up in the atmosphere in a complicated operation expected to last several months.Northrop G...
With the United States’ 250th birthday coming up on July Fourth, it may seem like George Washington is everywhere, from a live PBS broadcast featuring Ken Burns at Colonial Williamsburg to two-part screenings of the musical Hamilton where actor Christopher Jackson plays the Revolutionary War hero. B...
Ancient microbes may have helped preserve a pterosaur fossil and its chemical clues for more than 100 million years....
Engineers discovered that falling rainwater can unexpectedly reverse airflow deep underground, solving a mystery with important implications for mine safety. Operating a facility deep underground means constantly managing two essential challenges: air and water. Fresh air must circulate throug...
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A cache of centuries-old gold coins has helped uncover the story of a lost Dutch trading ship....
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The night sky seems eternal and unchanging. But in cosmic time, nothing could be further from the truth. Vasily Belokurov is one of three winners of the 2026 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics. The award is for uncovering fossil evidence of past galactic mergers that prove how the Milky Way evolved. No mat...
Neutrinos: They have no electric charge, pass through matter like a ghost and are so light they were initially thought to have zero mass. These are just some of the traits that make them so difficult to detect. Research on neutrinos requires massive underground observatories far from potential confo...
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured the infrared light of numerous features that previously were impossible to see beyond the thick dust of the FS Tau star system. In addition to myriad background galaxies that burst into view like fireworks for the United States’ 250th anniversary celebr...
Scientists have finally uncovered how bacteria naturally create multiple versions of powerful anti-cancer drugs, solving a mystery that has frustrated researchers for decades....
For more than a century, scientists believed this cheerful-looking creature lived only in the Hawaiian Islands....
Soon after Earth formed, life happened. It all started with a soup of complex organic chemicals delivered express from space. Then stuff happened, and pow, there were itty-bitty cells....
NASA unveiled four patriotic-colored images of the cosmos to celebrate America's 250th birthday, revealing everything from an exploded star to a galaxy cluster shaped by dark matter....
Researchers in the United States have developed a new method to extract 99% pure lithium from a solution where the ratio of sodium to lithium was 1,000 to 1.The team from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering found that electrochemical intercalation can be used to extrac...