Environment
California’s salmon fishery is reopening after a population crash led to a 3-year closure, but that doesn’t mean all is well
Eric Palkovacs, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz -
Along the California coast, from Bodega Bay to Morro Bay, commercial fishing boats have started pulling in salmon for the first time in three years, and local salmon are once again appearing on restaurant menus...
Environment
The US is seeing stronger storms, so why are droughts getting worse?
About two-thirds of the U.S. is in some stage of drought in late spring 2026, yet at the same time the country has been seeing more intense downpours. It might seem contradictory, but both are...
Environment
How natural selection helps design antennas, cancer treatments and adhesives
NASA had a big – and little – problem. For a small satellite, the agency needed a tiny antenna, with very specific communication capabilities and very strict limits on size and weight. The agency gave...
Life
Earliest use of anaesthetics uncovered in Chinese doctor’s tomb
Two medical instruments recovered from the 15th-century tomb of a Chinese surgeon carry traces of an anaesthetic compound, the...
Science
Strange new species of blue octopus discovered by scientists 5,900 feet underwater: “It’s beautiful”
On the ocean floor near the Galapagos Islands, a submersible controlled by scientists came across a mysterious octopus as blue as the ocean that "could curl up in the palm of your hand.""He's tiny! It's...
Life
Attack on Iran’s oil released as much pollution as a volcano
Israeli airstrikes on oil facilities in Tehran on 7 March led to sulphur dioxide emissions equivalent to a small...
Life
PCOS to PMOS name change ‘more representative of condition’
Health experts in Jersey say the change helps people realise it is not an ovaries-only condition.
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Space
DARPA readies robotic deep-space repair satellite for 2026 launch
DARPA is at last ready to test fueling up satellites in faraway Earth orbits, to keep those machines working a little bit longer.DARPA's (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) long-delayed Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellite (RSGS) demonstrator is slated to...
Life
Mars astronauts may do laundry by blasting clothes with a plasma beam
Astronauts in space can’t do laundry – but that may be about to change. And it could mean that...
Space
Why your brain needs plenty of “Aha!” moments
Last week, my editor, Chelsea, said something that stopped me in my tracks. She was worried about the ubiquity...
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James Handy: US actor stabbed to death, with girlfriend’s son arrested
Handy, 81, is known for his roles in films including Jumanji and Top Gun: Maverick.
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