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Coffee beans found in Civet poop used to make one of the world’s most expensive Kopi Luwak coffee which costs thousands of dollars per kilogram

Heart Aerospace’s X1 battery-electric demonstrator makes 27-minute first flight, weighs more than 25,000 pounds at takeoff, reaches 1,100 feet, uses $5 worth of electricity

Meet Arya Gurumukhi, the Texas student developing a ‘Bionic Leaf’ that uses sunlight, water and bacteria to make fuel

CosmoCube could use the Moon as a natural radio shield to study the Universe’s hidden era before the first stars and galaxies appeared

Chinese doctors claim first-ever successful double thigh replantation; factory worker starts walking again after losing both legs

Watch: Indian-origin Nasa astronaut Anil Menon takes second spacewalk

In the 1990s, a predatory flatworm was released in Samoa to control giant African snails; it later became linked to the decline and extinction of native island snails

In 1937, Australian scientists released infected rabbits on an island to test a virus that would later transform rabbit control across the continent

In 1986, a 29-year-old teacher spent 55 days crossing the Arctic and became the first woman to reach the North Pole

In 1885, New Zealand released European hedgehogs as garden pest killers; 140 years later, DOC calls them a major threat to native wildlife and one can empty an endangered tern colony of nesting birds

Meet Ella Lu, the 17-year-old North Carolina student who taught AI to recognise how Impressionist painters arranged objects in their paintings

Bengaluru firm Digantara builds India’s own eyes in orbit

In 2019, US wildlife officials warned that desert solar farms can look like lakes from the sky, luring waterbirds to land where they cannot take off

Quote of the day by Pythagoras: “Of all the rest of mankind, make him your friend who distinguishes himself by his virtue”

By 2005, Kenya's Kisumu Bay appeared clear; one year later, NASA images showed invasive water hyacinth covering much of the bay

Quote of the day by Florence Nightingale: “So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small”

Scientists found fire salamanders glow blue-green under ultraviolet light, with their skin glands producing fluorescent secretions

Dutch plant turns 420,000 tonnes of poultry manure into renewable electricity for 45,000 households while recycling the leftover ash into fertiliser

Have we found first exomoon? Strange object forcing astronomers to rethink what a moon is

Antarctica holds more than 60% of the world’s meteorites, but warming could make thousands disappear into the ice

California scientists poisoned invasive Argentine ant colonies with two common baits; one sent workers roaming before death, the other made them stop searching for food and cluster near water

Meet Ankan Das, the 15-year-old Florida student who built a shape-shifting robot that crawls on Moon soil and squeezes through tight spaces

Henrietta Lacks died at 31 in 1951, but her cells kept multiplying; the discovery that transformed medicine and helped save millions of lives

Since Webb discovered mysterious “little red dots” in 2022, astronomers have struggled to explain them; a galaxy seen 3.3 billion years after the Big Bang may finally reveal their hidden evolution

Before 1945, Hawaiʻi released wasps to kill crop pests; decades later, they made up 83% of the parasitoids found attacking native forest moths

New model may improve solar storm forecasts

Meet Finnegan McGill, the 18-year-old Arizona student who spent four years building an AI device that can identify birds from their calls and pinpoint where they are

In 1972, several dozen pet chameleons were released in Hawaii; they later spread to multiple islands and were found eating endangered native tree snails

In the late 1700s, Europeans brought sheep to Hawaiʻi; by the 1930s, officials were removing feral herds from Mauna Kea's vanishing native forest

$A dose of insecticide killed 97.91% of mosquitoes that spread dengue; a tiny fraction that survived has researchers in Delhi worried$

A dose of insecticide killed 97.91% of mosquitoes that spread dengue; a tiny fraction that survived has researchers in Delhi worried

In the late 1990s, a tree frog apparently reached the Galápagos in cargo; it later established populations on multiple islands, where its ecological impact remains under study

In the 1930s, Kansas planted an Asian legume to stop erosion and feed wildlife: It invaded native grasslands and became extremely difficult to remove

In 1990, a husband and wife moved into an Idaho tent camp: They spent six years living beside wolves to change how America saw the species

In 2013, a Filipino student found an undescribed gold cockroach in a cave: He became the country’s “Cockroach Lord” and helped name 14 species

Butterfly wings inspire a breakthrough solar panel design that could boost electricity production by 66%

In 1935, black drongos were introduced on Rota to control crop pests; decades later the aggressive birds spread to Guam and became a threat to native birds

The scientist teaching AI to make learning music more accessible

Meet Arnav Kodavati: A 17-year-old California teen turning food waste into biodegradable paper towels

In 2026, scientists found oak trees can delay spring leaf growth by three days to starve hungry caterpillars

Meet Max Hung Nguyen, the 17-year-old California student who used Nasa data and AI to predict which stars are most likely to have giant planets

Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela is a natural light show that appears on hundreds of nights every year, making it one of the world’s biggest lightning hotspots.

Meet Kiefer Chow and Amelia Chow: The California siblings who are copying beavers to build dams that restore habitats and reduce wildfire risk

Scientists discover how ancient Chinese paintings used blood to survive for 2,000 Years

Scientists found 31 new species in the ocean's vast midwater zone, including nine new jellyfish using underwater robots and new imaging technology

Atolls can take up to 30 million years to form, but these tiny coral islands now support 31 million seabirds across the Indo-Pacific

Meet Astrid Eeuwes: The Dutch amateur astronomer who studies tiny space dust and now has an asteroid named after her

Quote of the day by Stephen Hawking: "However difficult life may seem, there is always…" - a lesson on resilience, perspective and finding what remains possible

Quote of the day by Marie Curie: “We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be...”

Nasa aircraft are chasing giant fire clouds over Utah: These towering smoke-filled clouds can punch high into Earth's atmosphere

Scientists are saying that universe may not last forever because Hawking-like radiation could eventually cause its evaporation

Only nine of these butterflies were found across the US in 2022; three years later researchers released more than 1,300 to rebuild the species

Hawaii's native stilt nearly disappeared decades ago; communities and scientists helped its population surpass 1,500 after decades of conservation efforts

In the 1950s, Texas introduced African sheep for hunters; they spread across the desert and now compete with native bighorn sheep

In 1905, Bermuda imported 71 Jamaican lizards to control crop pests; they later spread widely and preyed on beneficial insects and native wildlife

In 1912, the US created a Wyoming refuge for starving elk; a century of supplemental feeding helped the herd recover but altered its habitat

Meet Miles Wu, the 14-year-old New York student using origami to explore stronger, foldable emergency shelters

In 2026, NASA began testing a tiny AI-ready processor 500 times faster than current space chips

Smithsonian researchers used X-rays, plastic cups and 216-yard spools of thread to find wild turtle nests; predators raided 13 of 16

Meet Alfred Drummond-Herdman: The 27-year-old trainee lawyer who fills his bedroom with animal dung to film fungi and has identified two new species

Nasa-backed SPARK project could send tiny ‘aerobots’ into caves on Saturn’s moon Titan

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