A waste product from campus cafeterias proves remarkably effective at removing one of America's most persistent water contaminants—and it costs almost nothing to make.
A second origin of life could reshape the Great Filter argument. It would not establish that a catastrophe lies ahead: later evolutionary barriers and limits to our searches remain part of the question.
Researchers turned seafood waste into a battery fluid that outlasted conventional alternatives, suggesting a path toward cheaper, greener energy storage.
Where a century of treated sewage has accidentally created one of Australia's most biodiverse wetlands, drawing migratory birds from across the Arctic.
A millimetre-long salmon parasite called Henneguya salminicola has no mitochondrial genome and cannot use oxygen — the first multicellular animal ever confirmed to live its entire life cycle without breathing.
A 2023 ancestry study recovered 11,464 bases of Old Tom's mitochondrial genome from his mounted museum skeleton and set it into a global dataset that came to 490 mitogenomes. Separate nuclear comparisons place his closest match among contemporary New Zealand killer whales, and find that most of the variation in his genome is carried by none of the animals the team sampled.
Five million gallons is a high-end estimate, not typical use. Facility records, cooling design and summer peaks reveal how data-centre growth can strain local water supplies.
FH and HV are half-sisters by the same father, the only adult male Montagu's Harrier the RSPB knows to be breeding in the UK currently. Tracking since late July has already produced one unexpected sea crossing and one dead bird.
Planting wildflowers beneath solar panels transformed barren ground into a pollinator haven—and the bees spilled into neighboring farms, boosting crop production too.
The Huaxi green pitviper was described in January 2026 from western Sichuan, where the region's green pitvipers had been called Trimeresurus stejnegeri on morphology alone. A 171-sample genetic survey of that species had skipped the region entirely.
A conference model suggests radioactive salts could maintain chemical energy in Europa's ocean even if its seafloor lacks the active faults and hydrothermal vents once imagined.
Europa shows how a slightly eccentric orbit can turn gravity into internal heat, widening the search for liquid water beyond the part of a planetary system where starlight can warm a surface ocean.
Until July the species had one known English site, a 570-hectare common used as a military training area near York, where the Ministry of Defence's 2024 release recorded that "as little as 50 to 100" were believed to remain. The second site is real and dated. How long the moths have been on it is an inference, and the announcement gives no count of the Wallington colony.
A vanishing Chesapeake sanctuary is being resurrected with the mud dredged from shipping channels, creating an unexpected refuge for hundreds of bird species.
Four collecting dates at three sites near Kooskia and in the Nez Perce National Forest produced a mygalomorph spider from a genus whose only previous revision was published in 1979, and whose two other species live a long way west. The genetics place it firmly. The map around it does not.
The bacterial ancestry of mitochondria is clear across living eukaryotes, but the surviving family tree cannot reconstruct the merger’s physical steps or count partnerships that left no descendants.
