In 2015, this ordinary coffee cup hid seeds inside its paper; after the last sip, you could plant it instead of throwing it away |
A disposable coffee cup normally has a very short life. It holds a hot drink,…
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In 2024, fishers accidentally caught a 2.5-metre goblin shark alive off the Canary Islands, marking the first recorded live sighting of the species there |
Goblin shark, PC: University of La Laguna In May 2024, a group of recreational fishers…
In 1867, New Zealand introduced brown trout for sport fishing; more than 60 million were released by 1921, and the invader later caused local extinctions and fragmented native fish populations
New Zealand introduced brown trout for sport fishing When British settlers packed thousands of brown…
We are talking less to people than we used to; A 15-year study by psychologists reveals our social skills are failing
AI representation/ChatGPT There was a time when going out to buy bread, collect a prescription…
A 2,500-year-old animal bone found in Sicily reveals how ancient people wrote on clay |
Archaeologists uncovered a rare stylus depicting Dionysus, PC: Superintendency of Caltanissetta/Sicilian Government In Gela, on…
Florida’s Everglades face new threat as an invasive Asian swamp eel wipes out local crayfish and frogs and could be more destructive than the Burmese python |
Florida’s Everglades is facing a stealthy invasive threat beneath its waters as the Asian swamp…
Since the 1980s, Florida’s biggest threat has been Burmese pythons; but this snake-like fish may be even worse for the Everglades ecosystem |
In Florida’s canals and wetlands, some of the most consequential changes are difficult to see.…
In 1972, Costa Rica began protecting a misty mountain forest: Decades later, Monteverde’s 10,500 hectares have become a remarkable conservation story |
High in Costa Rica’s Tilarán mountains, the forest often appears to be suspended between land…
In 2014, scientists set off 23 explosions and deployed 3,500 seismographs around Mount St Helens; the experiment helped image a magma reservoir roughly 4 to 15 km beneath the volcano
Representative Image (AI-generated) Mount St. Helens is one of the most closely studied volcanoes in…
For 30 years, the “Kerry cow” bones were seen as proof of early farming in Ireland; scientists now say they belonged to a bear and wild boar
Representative Image (AI-generated) For more than three decades, a collection of animal bones from Ireland’s…