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In 2012, scientists began using dragonfly larvae to reveal where mercury pollution is building up in freshwater ecosystems

Would you eat ketchup that was made from algae but fulfilled your protein intake? Scientists have just created one and they want to see how much algae flavour people will tolerate

Scientists found genetically unusual avocados in Nicaragua that may preserve clues to a 5,000-year-old human journey from South America

Meet Rohan Naidu, the MIT astronomer who left engineering at 18; now he is helping uncover how the Universe's earliest black holes formed

In 2025, scientists deliberately flooded a Maryland forest with hurricane-level water to see how trees turn into a “ghost forest”

Swiss researchers built tiny drones powered by sound, using 40 kHz ultrasound and 3D-printed resonators to generate thrust

Scientists found a mysterious mark inside a 236-million-year-old fossil in Argentina that may reveal ancient mammal relatives gave birth instead of laying eggs

Meet Liz Frost, the amateur fungi hunter who spotted a mushroom-like species never recorded in Britain

San Diego's Leanne Fan, 18, built a device to simulate microgravity and tested red light on injured flatworms; tissue regeneration sped up by 95.2%, helping her win $80,000

Quote of the day by J.J. Thomson: “As we conquer peak after peak we see in front of us regions full of interest and beauty, but..”

Puerto Rico introduced small Indian mongooses to control rats in sugarcane fields; today, they are the island’s main wildlife reservoir for rabies

A mysterious white substance sat beside Chinese mummies for 3,600 years; DNA analysis traced it to ancient kefir-like cheese

In 2013, NASA Programmed Curiosity’s Chemistry Laboratory to Vibrate at Musical Frequencies- Making the Mars Rover Sing “Happy Birthday” to Itself

Fur traders introduced Arctic foxes across Alaska's Aleutian Islands to produce pelts; by killing seabirds, the foxes helped turn lush grasslands into tundra

In 1948, scientists left a giant fossil on an Arctic island because they could not carry it; 78 years later it became a record-size new predator

In 2016, an amateur astronomer testing a new camera captured a supernova brightening up to 70 million light-years away

A long-unidentified wreck from WWII’s “Little Pearl Harbor” has been confirmed off Bari; SS Samuel J. Tilden still lies largely intact 165 feet below

The gold in your wedding ring is older than Earth; scientists say much of it may have been forged when dead stars collided

University of Texas researchers turn everyday biomass into a machine that makes water from air

$A skeleton found beneath Scotland's Stirling Castle had more than 160 fractures; researchers say it is the first confirmed death from a trebuchet$

A skeleton found beneath Scotland's Stirling Castle had more than 160 fractures; researchers say it is the first confirmed death from a trebuchet

A rare Australian plant last recorded in 1967 has been found alive in remote Queensland after nearly six decades

Tragic tale: In 1962, Oklahoma researchers gave 14-year-old elephant Tusko 297 mg of LSD, the largest single dose ever administered; he collapsed within five minutes and died 100 minutes later

The trouble with getting used to miracles

In 1987, a British naturalist became the first professional warden of a remote Seychelles island; a year later 29 endangered warblers were moved there and established a new population

Commercial whaling killed 350,000 blue whales and 725,000 fin whales; more than 40 years later, the giants are slowly returning to the southeast Atlantic

By 2060, discarded solar panels could total 297 to 402 million tonnes worldwide; recycling them could generate almost $1 trillion in economic benefits

The race to make spaceflight cheaper has one big problem: Access

Quote of the day by Thomas Edison: "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

In the 1930s, Asian pond loaches escaped from a California goldfish farm; later introductions helped the invasive fish spread across western waterways

In the 1960s, walking catfish were believed to have escaped from a Florida fish farm or transport truck; by 1978, they had spread across 20 counties

eROSITA has mapped nearly 2 million X-ray sources, revealing black holes, stars and galaxy clusters across the Universe

Organisms living inside the gut of psychopaths could be the drivers of bad, sinful behaviour and conduct, claim scientists

In a 2016 Louisiana field experiment, researchers buried charcoal made from sugarcane waste; one treatment raised the first cane harvest by 22%

Newfoundland introduced moose in 1878, today, the population of 11,000 is on the verge of eradicating the island's forests

Quote of the day by Guglielmo Marconi: "Have I done the world good, or have I added a menace?"

In 1965, scientists fired radar at Mercury: The returning echo revealed its Day was 59 Earth days, not the 88 days long believed

In 2018, an amateur astronomer detected a signal from a NASA satellite lost since 2005: The agency confirmed its “dead” spacecraft was still transmitting

Meet Ryoya Sugimoto: The Japanese teenager who spotted strange jellyfish at a dock and helped scientists identify a species new to science

In 1949, five domestic cats were brought to Marion Island to control mice; their population grew to about 2,000 and was estimated to kill 450,000 seabirds a year

In the 2020s, an exotic anemone likely introduced through the aquarium trade spread on a Hawaii reef; a 300-square-foot patch grew to about one-third of an acre

Scientists unlock potassium from Morocco’s syenite rock to create a slower-release fertiliser for African crops

China, 1987–2024: NASA images show more than 820 square kilometres of farmland transformed by the world’s largest cluster of plastic greenhouses

NASA images show a tropical Australian wetland turning green after monsoon rains, then fading brown within months

In 1968, mouflon sheep were released on Hawaii for trophy hunting; within 36 years, more than 2,500 were trampling and stripping native forests

In 1968, two Soviet tortoises circled the Moon and returned alive, completing the journey three months before Apollo 8

In the 1990s, little fire ants likely arrived in Hawaii on potted plants; they went on to form supercolonies across farms and threaten native wildlife

In 1961, NASA sent radar toward Venus; its echo returned 6.5 minutes later after a 70-million-mile round trip

World's first seaweed harvest between 139 offshore wind turbines in the Netherlands can serve two purposes at once

In 1948, a California doctor bought 32 exotic deer from the San Francisco Zoo for hunting; decades of culls and rebounds still left more than 1,000 damaging Point Reyes wetlands

In the 1640s, Europeans carried St. John’s wort to America as a cure-all; its seeds spread across rangelands, making sheep and horses vulnerable to sunlight

Point Nemo is so remote that astronauts can be closer than people on Earth, yet its surrounding waters are a cemetery for spacecraft

Bat activity jumped 50% over Midwest solar farms as farmers planted nearby fields, and researchers think vegetation beneath panels may be the reason

Archaeologists found a young woman, believed to be 14 to 19, buried with a 32-to 34-week fetus in a Swedish cave; the remains may be up to 9,500 years old

Antarctica once had a rainforest just 900 km from the South Pole. Fossil roots reveal how warm it was 90 million years ago

Quote of the day by Guglielmo Marconi: “The coming of the wireless era will make war impossible, because…”

Meet Arya Hirsave: The Texas seventh-grader who found a way to make algae produce 77% more oil in five days

About 90% of fish found dead along stretches of the Mississippi River were invasive silver and bighead carp, while native species are handling the harsh conditions better

Male redback spiders somersault directly towards a female’s fangs during mating; scientists found the bizarre behaviour may come from surprisingly simple genetics

Iowa, 1850: Farmers planted European barberry as livestock hedges; the thorny shrub later helped wheat stem rust produce new races

Illinois, mid-1800s: Settlers planted buckthorn as a tough living fence; it later spread into dense thickets that shaded out native plants

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