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Environment 10 hours ago

World-first basic income trial boosts Indigenous livelihoods and Amazon rainforest protection

A pilot project in which Indigenous people in the Peruvian Amazon were given an unconditional basic income significantly improved community well-being, strengthened food security and supported rainforest protection, according ...

Astronomy 10 hours ago

There should be black holes in our neighborhood. Can we find them?

Scientific estimates show that there should be between about 100 million and 1 billion stellar-mass black holes in the Milky Way. But they aren't easy to locate. They're not like supermassive black holes (SMBH) at the centers ...

Astronomy 11 hours ago

Curtain-like plasma structures explain solar jets' apparent spinning in simulations

An international team of scientists from the University of Sheffield and the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, led by a postdoctoral research fellow from the University of Newcastle, Australia, has discovered that solar jets ...

Planetary Sciences 11 hours ago

Are 'mega-Earths' real? Stellar activity may explain these oversized rocky worlds

A new study suggests that some of the heaviest rocky planets ever reported may not be as heavy as they look. These so-called 'mega-Earths,' rocky planets weighing more than about 10 Earths, could be an illusion created by ...

Ecology 12 hours ago

Some fish might thrive in a warming climate

Adelaide University researchers have found that some estuarine fishes that live in habitats with highly variable temperatures can withstand the warmer ocean conditions expected to result from climate change.

Environment 16 hours ago

US is a big reason for the world losing ground in the fight against climate change, UN report says

Losing more ground in the fight against climate change, humanity is heading for a hotter world than experts projected last year—and the United States is a big reason for that, a new United Nations report says.

Ecology 22 hours ago

Illegal fishing is thriving in African waters—a satellite system could help change that

A patrol boat off the coast of Gabon intercepted three trawlers in July 2026, inside the Grand Sud Reserve. This is one of West and Central Africa's largest marine reserves, where industrial trawling is banned. None of the ...

Evolution Oct 21, 2026

Candida auris: A harbinger of further dangerous fungal species?

Why has the yeast Candida auris become a dangerous pathogen worldwide in just a few years? This question is on the minds of many researchers. Carla Schuh and Chaitanya Gokhale from the Biocentre at the University of Würzburg ...

Plants & Animals Oct 21, 2026

Not all rattlesnakes are alike: Research suggests personality influences how rattlesnakes use their venom

Imagine encountering a rattlesnake in your backyard or while on a hike. It will most likely "freeze" to avoid attracting attention, but if it feels especially threatened, it may rattle and even strike, delivering a painful ...

Earth Sciences Oct 21, 2026

Reconstructing 16,000 years of summer temperature change in the Western Balkans

Researchers at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) have reconstructed approximately 16,000 years of summer temperature changes from sediments collected at Lake Prokoško in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The findings show how the Western ...

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