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Harvie built two walls around his property, blocking long-used public path along River Clyde.(AI-enhanced photo: Mitchell Library, Glasgow Collection) More than 200 years after a group of Glasgow residents tore down a wall that prevented them from walking along the River Clyde, archaeologists have uncovered remains linked to the confrontation. According to Scottish News, the…

Representative Image of homogeneous ice nucleation on Mars, highlighting water vapor transforming into ice without dust (AI-generated image) Every morning during spring and summer in Mars’s southern hemisphere, a long white cloud appears downwind of the giant volcano Arsia Mons. The Arsia Mons Elongated Cloud, or AMEC, can stretch up to 1,800 kilometres before fading,…

Among all the animals and birds that have gone extinct, the dodo remains unforgettable, not due to some special characteristic, but because, before its human-driven extinction, many thought that nature was inexhaustible and none of god’s creations would ever disappear. It proved that human activity had the capacity to wipe out an entire species. More…

Scientists have found a promising way to help birds recover songs that have disappeared from their natural habitats, using computer-generated recordings to bring old bird calls back into circulation. The experiment, reported by The Guardian on October 13, 2026, suggests that technology could eventually support wildlife conservation by helping birds relearn vocal traditions lost as…

Photo credit: Sotheby’s A dinosaur skeleton discovered by Montana rancher Jodi Pierson on her family’s land in 2019 is now on public display at Sotheby’s in New York ahead of an auction on October 27. Nicknamed “Jodi” after its discoverer, the mounted Nanotyrannus skeleton is nearly 70 percent complete, making it one of only three…

An uncrewed underwater vehicle outfitted with micro synthetic aperture sonar (µSAS) was used to map the USS Monitor wreck (Image: Tane Casserley/NOAA) Few ships changed naval warfare as dramatically as the Civil War ironclad Monitor, famous for its rotating gun turret, and few wrecks are as hard to visit. Resting about 240 feet down off…

Stanford physicists have recorded what they describe as the first direct observation of quantum jumps of sound in a mechanical resonator. According to the Stanford Report, the team, led by Amir Safavi-Naeini, published its findings in the journal Science on 17 September 2026. Quantum jumps were first demonstrated in trapped ions in 1986 and in…

Image: Left/USA Today/Right/3M Website Ocean acidification rarely makes headlines the way storms or heatwaves do, yet it quietly changes the chemistry that coral, shellfish and other sea creatures rely on. One twelve-year-old from Connecticut has decided to take it on. Raji Doshi, a seventh-grade student at Talcott Mountain Academy, designed a coastal solution that pairs…

In 2002, black rats (Rattus rattus) were eradicated from Mokoliʻi, a 1.6-hectare islet off the east shore of Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi. Only a single Wedge-tailed Shearwater chick survived there from 1999 to 2001. Once the rats were gone, the number of surviving chicks reached 126 in 2002 and 185 in 2003. According to the study published…

The discovery of penicillin transformed modern medicine, but scientists have continued to investigate how nature builds the antibiotic’s essential chemical structure. Researchers from the University of Oxford and international collaborators have now captured previously unseen stages in the process that produces penicillin.The team captured the reaction with ultrafast X-ray free-electron laser experiments, observing how an…