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a red fish with a grumpy expression and large teeth
Environment

Seriously grumpy-faced fish discovered in Red Sea

By Laura Baisas

ocean waves
Environment

For the first time, part of the ocean has been granted legal personhood

By Isabella Kaminski / Hakai Magazine

a polar bear cub comes out of a den with its paw up
Environment

Polar bears adapted to the Arctic just 70,000 years ago

By Laura Baisas

toilet paper shaped like sad face
DIY

Why you should consider a bidet

By Debbie Wolfe

A Syntretus perlmani wasp larva bursts from a fruit fly’s abdomen.
Environment

Gnarly wasp gruesomely rips apart fruit flies from the inside out with its larvae

By Laura Baisas

a reservoir in colombia with very low water levels due to drought
Environment

Mega El Niños helped kill 90 percent of life on Earth

By Laura Baisas

an illustration of a long gray coelacanth swimming in its native habitat
Science

The ‘living fossil’ that thrived during a mass extinction

By Laura Baisas

Lasius emarginatus
Science

This immigrant ant is taking New York City by storm

By Popular Science Team

The best solar generators including Jackery 2000 Pro, Anker 767 and the EcoFlow
Gear

The best solar generators for 2024, tested and reviewed

By Nick Hilden, Stan Horaczek

an illustration of a small bird with light brown, black, and white plummage. it has a long beak with sharp teeth
Environment

‘Weird’ prehistoric bird had a weaponized beak with teeth

By Laura Baisas

Germany’s North and Baltic Seas are littered with munitions from the First and Second World Wars, such as shells—as shown here—once fired from German battleships.
Technology

The big Baltic bomb cleanup

By Paul Hockenos / Hakai Magazine

a whale surfaces next to a large fishing trawler
Environment

Whales need krill to survive. We want it for supplements.

By Laura Baisas

Mini mum is one of the smallest frogs in the world, described by Mark D. Scherz and his colleagues in 2019. These tiny frogs from southeastern Madagascar live in amongst the leaf litter and feed on tiny mites. They are amongst the target species of the GEMINI project, because their closest relatives are ten times larger.
Science

Researchers want to unlock genetics of the world’s tiniest animals

By Andrew Paul

an x-ray image of an eel escaping from a fish's stomach
Environment

Watch an eel escape a fish’s stomach through its gills

By Laura Baisas

Early warning systems save lives during disasters.
DIY

How to sign up for local emergency alerts before natural disasters strike

By Natasha Uzcátegui-Liggett / The Markup

an illustration of a striped tasmanian tiger with sharp teeth eating the body of a wombat-like creature
Environment

New bone-crushing Tasmanian tiger species dug up by paleontologists

By Laura Baisas

Turns out, micro and nano plastics degrade differently.
Science

Scientists finally get a 3D view of degrading microplastics

By Mack DeGeurin

a pterosaur speices flaps its wings to fly, while another uses them to soar
Science

‘Remarkable’ fossils offer clues to perplexing pterosaur question

By Laura Baisas

several loaves of golden rustic looking bread on a table
Environment

How farming helped humans evolve to get more energy from carbs

By Laura Baisas

horses in a field
Environment

Where and when were horses domesticated?

By William Taylor / The Conversation

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