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The restoration involves building structures that look like features found in a natural river (Photo: Fox7) After nearly two decades of planning, crews are now working in the Grand River in Grand Rapids, Michigan, to bring back the rapids that gave the city its name. Rapids are sections of a river where water flows faster…

A simple sugar delivered to the young Earth by meteorites may have played a more complicated role in the emergence of life than scientists once thought. Ribose, a five-carbon sugar, is best known today as the sugar that forms part of RNA, one of biology’s most important molecules. But ribose is chemically fragile and can…

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with a crew of four launches from pad 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral. (AP Photo) SpaceX on Thursday launched four astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) for a six-month mission focused on studying human health and performance in space.A Falcon 9 rocket carrying…

AI could force over 10 million US workers into new careers by 2035: What the McKinsey report underlines For ages, everyone’s worried AI would come for their jobs. But things aren’t as cut and dried as that old “robots stealing our jobs” story. The latest report from the McKinsey Global Institute doesn’t predict mass unemployment;…

Northern spotted skink (Oligosoma kokowai) in Napier. Image credit: Nick Harker/ New Zealand Herpetological Society New Zealand has created a 676-square-metre pest-proof sanctuary in Napier for the northern spotted skink, a rare native reptile whose Hawke’s Bay population is considered critically endangered. The purpose-built enclosure was completed in late 2025, and on 18 April 2026,…

Liam DesrePhoto credit: youthscience.ca In the grand quest to understand why the universe is expanding faster and faster, most scientists point to an invisible force called dark energy. A 14-year-old student from Kingston, Ontario, has taken a different path. Liam Desre, a Grade 10 teenager, proposed a thermodynamic extension to the standard model of cosmology…

The researchers examined fossils from ancient coastal environments associated with the Western Interior Seaway, a vast inland sea that divided North America during the Cretaceous. More than 100 million years ago, the boundary between land and sea may have been a little less distinct than it looks on a map. Along the ancient coastlines of…

Representative Image (AI-generated) California is moving ahead with a major restoration project that will reshape about 2,800 acres of farmland on Webb Tract in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta into wetlands and upland habitat, alongside rice cultivation. According to the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California and the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Conservancy, the project is intended…

Farmland is often welcomed as wildlife habitat, but a January 2026 study in Global Ecology and Conservation found reptiles collected during mechanical grape harvesting. Researchers examined a central Israeli winery’s waste container over four nights and found 105 reptiles, most of them dead. According to the study published in ScienceDirect, titled ‘Extensive chameleon mortality in…

​Wheat seed loss fell 63% after wheat germ oil treatment (Representational AI image) Australian scientists have tested a non-toxic way to protect wheat seeds from hungry mice by making it harder for the rodents to locate them. In an experiment carried out in 2021, instead of poisoning the mice or using bait, the researchers sprayed…