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Plants & Animals Sep 4, 2026

Periodical cicadas may be doomed to extinction

Every 13 or 17 years, swarms of cicadas emerge from the ground, their black bodies, orange-tinged wings and ruby-red eyes enveloping trees and forests. It is a biological marvel unique in the insect world, and when it happens, ...

Environment Sep 4, 2026

El Niño set to bring warmer spring to NZ and Australia

El Niño is firmly established and will intensify into a very strong event in the coming months, with major impacts on rainfall and temperature patterns and associated risks of floods, drought and extreme heat, according to ...

Analytical Chemistry Sep 4, 2026

Davyne changes color beyond human sight, opening path to invisible security tags

While studying the properties of hackmanite, researchers created a new material called davyne that changes color in the near-infrared region. The color change cannot be detected with the human eye, but only with a spectrometer ...

Social Sciences Sep 4, 2026

Prom season can increase body image anxiety for some teens—how parents can help

Prom is one of the most exciting events on the school calendar for many high school seniors.

Veterinary medicine Sep 4, 2026

Researchers test far-ultraviolet light to prevent bird flu in poultry

When a strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza, or HPAI, tore through U.S. poultry farms in early 2025, farmers culled tens of millions of birds, and egg prices soared.

Plants & Animals Sep 3, 2026

How an unassuming wildflower thrives in salt-laden air that kills other plants

On the windswept coasts of Oregon and California lives an unassuming little plant that can withstand salty blasts that kill its inland counterparts. It's called the yellow monkeyflower. Now, researchers are beginning to understand ...

Earth Sciences Sep 3, 2026

The Arctic melt season is now more than a month longer than it was in the 1980s, new research on sea ice trends shows

Relatively few people have been to the Arctic, and even fewer have set foot in Antarctica. Most people rely on imagination and the media to visualize these landscapes and the ways they are changing.

Evolution Sep 3, 2026

Early mammals weren't all loners—some may have lived in pairs alongside the dinosaurs

About 200 million years ago, furry, little egg-laying creatures evolved the ability to feed their offspring with a secretion from special glands: milk. Their evolutionary journey continued, and by about 160 million years ...

Environment Sep 3, 2026

El Niño could be strongest in decades, UN warns

El Niño is forecast to be the strongest since comparable records began four decades ago, the United Nations' climate agency warned Thursday, with the UN chief saying the world was in the "danger zone of extreme weather."

Environment Sep 3, 2026

First-of-its-kind research balances the needs of solar farms and grazing

For insurers and operators alike, what grows under a solar array is almost as important as what sits on top of it. Grass height, moisture and biomass all influence how a site is insured, maintained and grazed.

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