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Happy Eco News Can an E-Bike Replace Two Car Trips a Week? A Practical Route-Planning Checklist Can an E-Bike Replace Two Car Trips a Week? A Practical Route-Planning Checklist Replacing a…
ScienceStoke Park is a natural haven in a busy British town. Centered in Guildford, Surrey, its rolling fields pop with wildflowers in the spring; birds sing and ducks paddle serenely in a pond…
ScienceIt is a peculiar irony: as technology reaches ever deeper into Earth’s living systems, the primal sonic expressions of the natural world—wind, water, leaf, and creature—have never been more…
ScienceIn his second term as the U.S. president, Donald Trump has taken actions to remove protections from at least 34.8 million hectares (86 million acres) of public lands, according to the…
ScienceSo far, 2026 has seen a flood of successes for volunteers who do NASA science, exemplifying NASA’s commitment to gold-standard science—transparent, reproducible and intrinsically…
ScienceA new study with data from mice and human tissues suggests that, in ulcerative colitis, immune cells in the gut might make pain-sensing nerves hypersensitive.
ScienceOften described as a genius, physicist Sabrina Pasterski built and flew her own plane by the age of 16 and is now developing a mind-bending idea that could finally unify gravity and quantum…
ScienceThe sands of the Arabian peninsula were once dotted with lakes that teemed with life, but early humans avoided them unless they came with easy access to stone for tool-making
ScienceProfessor Ali Jadbabaie describes how AI, digital transformation, climate change, and complex geopolitics are forcing engineers and policymakers to rethink how infrastructure is designed…
ScienceKAKINADA, India (AP) — A powerful cyclone battered India ’s Andhra Pradesh state on Wednesday, killing at least three people and damaging homes and farmland after authorities evacuated tens…
ScienceIn this Webb image released on Oct. 22, 2026, we see a turbulent cauldron of star formation filled with dense clumps of gas. This region is named N159 and is located 161,000 light-years…
ScienceNathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s look at the disgraced founder of Theranos, You Can See Everything, had Grace Wade on the edge of her seat – but is it more concerned with entertainment…
ScienceThe reporting and photography for this story was fully supported by a 2025-2026 grant from the Sitka Foundation and the Science Media Centre of Canada. Four of the five worst years recorded…
ScienceDogs are generally not treated well in Bangladesh, where the majority Muslim population holds a conservative approach to domesticating dogs. Here, kicking a resting or passing stray dog is…
ScienceCritics warn of climate danger as president in Texas claims change will save companies and consumers billions Donald Trump said his administration was “terminating” Biden-era regulations…
ScienceOvaries from older mice, which were no longer able to reproduce, seemed to become active again when transplanted into younger animals, suggesting the new host's body lowered the organs'…
ScienceMy lovely father died of Alzheimer's last year, and since then, I've been digging into the disease to try to understand what happened to him. I was astonished to discover that scientists…
ScienceThe EU has unveiled its first Arctic strategy since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
ScienceYEREVAN, Armenia — Two years ago at the 2024 U.N. biodiversity conference (COP 16) in Cali, Colombia, a meeting room packed with people representing some of the world’s thousands of…
ScienceDespite the headwinds that have cratered support for Donald Trump – high prices, the Iran war, corruption – many of Trump’s MAGA loyalists still back him. A scholar who studies MAGA looks…
ScienceDespite acquiring more than one-third of US methadone clinics, private equity has not significantly expanded methadone availability.
ScienceMedieval ghosts shapeshifted, rose from their graves, and begged for help in making amends for their misdeeds.
SciencePaleoproteomic analysis of fossils from northern China reveals that Denisovans had a distinctive physical appearance.
ScienceMillions of old homes across the UK and Europe need insulating under net-zero strategies, and promising start-ups believe materials called aerogels could be the answer
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