11+ hour, 25+ min ago   (187+ words) Whale watchers out of San Diego last Wednesday were treated to a close encounter involving orcas that are more commonly encountered deep in Mexican waters. It was an extraordinary greeting that included a special moment for one passenger, who was…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago   (198+ words) Pollinators are in decline in CT and beyond. Why it matters to everyone and what the state is doing. Monarch butterflies advertise their toxicity through their brilliant orange and black wings. The milkweed tussock moth, on the other hand, has…...

1+ hour, 6+ min ago   (594+ words) Learn all about great apes in this expert guide from Nakedi Maputla from African Wildlife Foundation Bigger and brainer than all other primates, great apes are also distinguished by their sophisticated social structures and the way they exhibit culture. As…...

8+ hour, 28+ min ago   (354+ words) Denisovan remains dating back 134,000 to 167,000 years have been discovered in Bianfu Cave in Yunnan Province in southwestern China. Two studies published in the journal Nature on September 9 also describe the stone tools and way of life of this group of…...

1+ day, 42+ min ago   (386+ words) Now available via early access: image-based search retrieves real, diagnosed reference cases from world-class centers, spanning 300+ diagnostic entities. Now available via early access: image-based search retrieves real, diagnosed reference cases from world-class centers, spanning 300+ diagnostic entities.BERLIN and NEW YORK,…...

9+ hour, 19+ min ago   (384+ words) A powerful earthquake on March 10, 2025, did more than shake Jan Mayen, a remote Norwegian island in the Arctic Ocean. It also unleashed a massive rock avalanche that buried a large section of a glacier, and researchers say rising temperatures likely…...

10+ hour, 46+ min ago   (321+ words) Since the start of 2026, wildfires in the United States have burned more than 8.4 million acres — approximately 1.3 million acres above the average annual figure of the previous decade. As of September 9, major fires were continuing in at least 13 states, TIME reports....

6+ hour, 32+ min ago   (347+ words) | Newswise Newswise How a superfruit balances cold survival and berry sweetness Proposed model of the adaptive survival strategy of L. caerulea. Blue honeysuckle is one of the hardiest fruit crops on Earth, surviving temperatures as low as -50°C without damage and…...

3+ hour, 42+ min ago   (366+ words) ANCIENT wildfires near the South Pole once shaped a prehistoric rainforest into the earliest known peat bog. New research co-led by Professor Ulrich Salzmann from Northumbria University has revealed that wildfires around 90 million years ago played a crucial role in…...

11+ hour, 27+ min ago   (206+ words) Sleep expert and anthropologist David R Samson sheds light on how human sleep evolved from apes to hunter-gatherers to modern societies For most people, bedtime is a routine matter of turning off the lights and hoping for eight hours of…...