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Between 2014 and 2017, underwater robots found surface chlorophyll 1,000 metres deep; scientists have now explained how it arrived
Scientists have solved the mystery of unusually high concentrations of chlorophyll detected more than 1,000…
Meet Seungah Chung, the US eighth-grader who used 200 ants and a maze to discover they navigate by landmarks
Seungah Chung (Image Credit: Society For Science) Most of us have seen ants marching across…
New membrane removes more than 99.99% of oil from seawater while producing fresh water using sunlight |
As freshwater shortages intensify around the world, scientists are searching for technologies that can do…
How an eel elevator on Maine’s Penobscot River helped restore millions of fish and brought humpback whales back |
Every spring, millions of migratory fish leave the Atlantic Ocean and swim into freshwater rivers…
In 2006, a tiny deep-reef fish was pulled from deep water off South Australia and misidentified; nearly 20 years later, scientists recognised a new species
Image Credit: Journal of Lost Species Some discoveries happen the moment a specimen is collected.…
Scientists placed 42 sea sponges in a polluted Spanish port. 455 days later, one species had thrived while four others died |
Representative Image of marine life thriving around resilient chicken kidney sponges in polluted waters (AI-generated…
Lithops werneri: The tiny Namibian plant that survives by disguising itself as a pebble. Fewer than 200 now remain in the wild |
Representative Image of Lithops werneri camouflaged among grey stones in Namibia’s Erongo Mountains (AI-generated image)…
Scientists identify an insect-eating plant that just proved Charles Darwin’s 150-year-old theory right
A breakthrough in plant science has validated Charles Darwin’s historic conjecture surrounding carnivorous Saxifraga species.…
In 2021, Australian scientists cloned one seed of the Queen of Sheba orchid. Five years later, it produced 1,000 plants and its first flower
How cloning one seed of the Queen of Sheba orchid changed its fate Science and…