Science

Image: Left/ncse/Right/Pumpkin Person Every person alive today carries a mitochondrial genome that came from their mother, who received it from hers, and so on back through hundreds of thousands of years. Follow that chain far enough, and every line meets in one woman who lived in Africa about 200,000 years ago. Scientists call her Mitochondrial…

Secretary of State, Emma Reynolds, Tony Juniper and His Majesty, King Charles III at the Seven Sisters National Nature Reserve. Image Credit: Nature England King Charles III opened the Seven Sisters National Nature Reserve in East Sussex in March 2026, marking a significant step in efforts to protect England’s wildlife, landscapes and water resources. Covering…

PC: Hawaii Invasive Species Council (HISC) Himalayan ginger, known as Hedychium gardnerianum, reached Hawaiʻi as a garden plant. It was purposely introduced into park housing as an ornamental in the 1940s. According to the Hawaii Invasive Species Council (HISC), it is found on all major Hawaiian islands and is considered one of the world’s 100…

The newly discovered tooth provides another reason to reconsider how the region looked in the distant past, the report claims. The Atacama Desert is a landscape where water is measured in millimetres, not rivers. Today, parts of this vast Chilean desert receive almost no rain, making the discovery of an animal that depended on plentiful…

The researchers found that butterflies did not redesign their entire visual system. Instead, they effectively duplicated one component of the existing arrangement, adding a second R7 photoreceptor to each eye unit. A butterfly’s world is not simply brighter or more colourful than ours. It is built from a richer visual vocabulary, one shaped by an…

Otter will travel to within hundreds of yards of each object and examine it without making physical contac A spacecraft about the size of a washing machine is preparing to approach objects that are no longer working in Earth’s orbit. The mission, supported by NASA, will test whether a spacecraft can independently navigate towards inactive…

When summer heat dries up streams in the Sonoran Desert, wild horses and donkeys can do something unexpected: dig for water. Researchers began tracking these animal-made wells in 2015, mapping their water supply across four Arizona sites over three summers. By 2018, they had found that the wells could provide up to 74% of the…

A Clovis point discovered in the Beartooth Mountains (Image: Nick Mott) Imagine standing at 9,500 feet in rugged mountains where, according to long-held scientific thinking, a thick cap of ice should have blocked almost all life thousands of years ago. Now imagine finding stone tools there, left by some of the earliest widespread people in…

Representative Image of a luxurious superyacht conducting marine science research in the Antarctic waters under clear skies ( AI Generrated Image) Superyachts are usually associated with luxury travel, but the 68-metre Archimedes, owned by Jim and Marilyn Simons at the time of the research, also became a platform for marine science. During several deployments between…

Photo credit: Sara Rubinstein/Courtesy of the Trust for Public A multi-year conservation project along Wisconsin’s Lake Superior shoreline has helped protect more than 1,700 acres of land, restore wetlands and improve habitats used by fish, migratory birds and other wildlife. The project brought together the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and Landmark Conservancy, a…