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Why does Tennessee now have wild hogs in about 80 of its 95 counties when they were confined to a handful a few decades ago?

A 1999 hunting season with no bag limit was meant to cut Tennessee’s wild hog numbers, but it made the hogs worth moving, and ...
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Most US lobster-trap tags that washed up on two Azores islands came from Maine, more than 3,000 km away, in a count of 1,577 pieces of North American gear with ta…

Every lobster trap set off the coast of Maine must carry a small plastic tag, usually stamped with a license number, a year ...
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Your dentist is part of your longevity program

The statistical association is clear: tooth decay and infected gums are associated with higher rates of heart disease and all ...
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Arizona has resurfaced its highways with rubberized asphalt made from scrap tires since 1988 — and the noise readings on one Scottsdale freeway section dropped by ...

A claim about Arizona’s highways landed in front of me the way these things usually do, dressed up with numbers that sound too specific to be wrong. Millions of tons of scrap tires, tens of millions ...
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Scientists tested the five-second rule by dropping food onto contaminated surfaces 2,560 times — bacteria could transfer almost instantly, and watermelon picked up as much as ...

Food was dropped onto deliberately filthy surfaces 2,560 times, from a height of exactly 12.5 centimetres, by gloved hands with a timer running. None of it was eaten. Every piece went into a sterile ...
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Since 2016, Dutch engineers have built a 1,300-hectare archipelago of seven islands inside Markermeer using sand and mud dredged from the lake floor

Marker Wadden is an artificial archipelago built to make an artificial freshwater lake more ecologically diverse. The first phase covers about 1,300 hectares of islands and underwater landscape, with ...
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In January 2026, researchers completed a drilling project beneath 1,716 feet of ice in West Antarctica, recovering evidence of an ocean that once lay open to sunlight

Buried under the ice in West Antarctica was a long core of mud and rock containing shell fragments and remains of marine organisms that need sunlight to live. Those remains indicate that parts of the ...
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Farmers in Qingtian have kept carp in their flooded rice paddies for more than 1,200 years, where the fish eat the insects and weeds and fertilise the crop as they go. The ...

In Qingtian County in southeast Zhejiang, farmers put roughly forty grams of carp fry into a rice paddy about a week after transplanting the seedlings, and they’ve been doing it for at least twelve ...
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In September 2026, Capital Kiwi removed the last transmitters from 250 Wellington kiwi; more than 90% of monitored chicks reached stoat-proof weight against DOC's 30% target.

North Island brown kiwi. Credit: The.Rohit / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0). In early September 2026, a field crew in the hills west of Wellington caught a North Island brown kiwi, unclipped a small ...
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A data center in Denmark gives away heat that data centers often waste. It runs water from the city's heating network through its cooling units and into heat pumps that raise ...

Almost all the electricity a data center pulls off the grid comes back out as heat. One overview of the field puts the figure at roughly 90%. A data center is, in effect, a very expensive radiator.
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In 2017, scientists poured Rhodamine WT pink dye into Porter Hole Sink under Florida’s Lake Jackson; 35 days later instruments picked it up at Wakulla Spring through ...

Surface water draining into a Florida sinkhole feeding the Floridan aquifer. Credit: U.S. Geological Survey (public domain). On the morning of September 19, 2017, at about 11:20, a diver in Lake ...
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There is no queen and no hive behind Xylocopa caerulea: each female excavates her own wood tunnel, packs it with bee bread of pollen and nectar, lays an egg on the store and ...

A blue carpenter bee working a tropical garden looks like a scrap of sky that got loose, and the temptation is to imagine a hive somewhere behind her — a colony, a queen, a comb. There isn’t one. Each ...