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A 300-foot beach on a tiny island in the Maldives was slowly eroding away. In order to solve the problem, a Marriott resort on the island experimented with something different. Instead of dredging sand, they used an artificial reef designed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers to repair the beach.Coastal Assembly, a startup that spun…

New framework allows Indian entities to offer satellite capacity to domestic and overseas customers BENGALURU: Space regulator-cum-promoter IN-SPACe has issued new guidelines for hosted payloads, requiring authorisation for Indian payloads hosted on foreign satellites while exempting foreign payload owners from separate authorisation when their payloads are hosted on Indian satellites.The framework recognises a “Satellite as…

Many times, human actions surpass their simplicity of tradition to evolve into a climate hazard. This is what happened in Northern Ireland’s Giant’s Causeway, where people have been placing coins in the cracks between the basalt columns in order to invite good luck.Recently, the National Trust had to remove more than 20 kilos of coins…

A major ecological change is beginning in northern Illinois, where conservation officials are reversing more than a century of farming changes to restore nearly 800 acres of natural land. The $15 million restoration project at Dutch Gap Forest Preserve in Antioch will remove major farm drainage systems, restore natural water flows and bring back wetlands,…

The 11 plovers released this year were fitted with tracking devices that use radio and Bluetooth signals Western snowy plovers have returned to nesting at Coal Oil Point Reserve in Isla Vista, California, after about 40 years without nesting there. The return followed conservation work that included fencing and a docent programme to reduce human…

For 18 years, researchers kept large herbivores out of fenced plots in a Kenyan savanna to study what happened to the trees in their absence. During that period, tree cover increased rapidly, trees became taller, and tree numbers rose. The fences were removed in 2017, allowing elephants, giraffes and other large herbivores to return to…

Callipallene pilosuspedes was named for its “hairy feet”, referring to the long, curved spines on its legs. Two bizarre new sea spider species have been identified in the Salish Sea, including one with long, hair-like spines on its legs and striking red eyes, Science Daily has reported. The other species is often found with dirt,…

Representative Image of a sunflower-inspired cooling system tilting to optimize radiative cooling under direct sunlight (AI Generated Image) Researchers in China have developed a radiative cooling system inspired by the way sunflowers track the sun, with experiments showing a 135% increase in cooling flux at solar noon compared with a fixed horizontal version of the…

Both animals were unharmed but appeared confused in the urban environment. (Representational photo: Pixabay) Yellow-bellied marmots usually live high in the mountains, but two of the large rodents recently turned up far from their usual habitat in California’s San Francisco Bay Area. One was found in San Francisco’s Mission District on September 5, while another…

That lemony, piney or floral smell after cleaning is usually associated with freshness. But new research suggests that the chemistry behind some scented cleaning products can also create an invisible form of indoor air pollution. Research presented by Purdue University scientists at the American Chemical Society’s Fall 2026 meeting found that fragrance compounds released during…