Our appetite for seafood is growing. In the last 60 years, the global consumption of fish has more than doubled. As demand has increased, so have dangerous levels of overfishing: 1/3 of the world’s fish stocks are currently being harvested at unsustainable levels. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The Fish Farming Industry's Dirty Secrets
Forced labor, rancid waste, harmful chemicals. What to know about the seafood that could end up on your plate.
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Plastic pollution from fibre optic drones may threaten wildlife for years bou.org.uk/blog-morelan...
Fibre Optic Drones - British Ornithologists' Union
Plastic pollution from fibre optic drones may threaten wildlife for years
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Once smoke is generated, chemical reactions reshape its gaseous and particulate constituents, altering what travels downwind and what people, ecosystems, and the climate are exposed to. eos.org/editors-vox/...
Where Fire Ends, Chemistry Begins - Eos
Once smoke is generated, chemical reactions reshape its gaseous and particulate constituents, altering what travels downwind and what people, ecosystems, and the climate are exposed to.
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A new study finds evidence of the southernmost wildfires currently known, which may have facilitated a transition from temperate rainforest to peatland in Antarctica. eos.org/articles/wil...
Wildfires Burned in Antarctica 90 Million Years Ago - Eos
A new study finds evidence for the southernmost wildfires currently known, which may have facilitated a transition from temperate rainforest to peatland in Antarctica.
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More than 800 years ago, the Khmer Empire created a network of 102 hospitals that offered free treatment to the sick. A new study examines this remarkable system, arguing that it may represent the world’s earliest state healthcare network. www.medievalists.net/2026/10/khme...
Khmer Empire Developed Massive State Healthcare System, Study Finds - Medievalists.net
A new study examines how the Khmer Empire under Jayavarman VII created a remarkable network of 102 hospitals offering free healthcare across its territories.
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…updated efficiency rules aimed to incentivize the production of low emission electric vehicles and hybrids. The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) estimates the standards would have saved 70 billion gallons of fuel over 25 years. www.dw.com/en/weakened-...
The true cost of US fuel economy rollbacks
Weakened US fuel-efficiency rules and promises of cheaper cars could yet see drivers pay higher running costs while increasing planet-heating emissions.
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Trump’s crackdown brought offshore wind development to a near standstill. Louisiana companies are trying to keep the industry alive until the political winds change. veritenews.org/2026/10/02/w...
‘Wait for the clock to run out’: Louisiana offshore wind energy leaders look beyond Trump
Trump’s crackdown brought offshore wind development to a near standstill. Louisiana companies are trying to keep the industry alive until the political winds change.
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Climate change drives most of the added extreme fire weather Europe's children face, and faster emissions cuts could spare them over a year. www.earth.com/climate/toda...
Today’s children face 84% more extreme fire weather than their grandparents
Climate change drives most of the added extreme fire weather Europe's children face, and faster emissions cuts could spare them over a year.
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Did not know!!! …20-kilometre-range versions are now common, with 50-km ones also appearing. The drones have become far more abundant, too, with some 60 per cent of Russian FPV attack drones now fibre guided. www.newscientist.com/article/2591...
Ukraine rolls out drone-stopping razor fence to thwart attacks | New Scientist
Most of the drones being used by Russia in the war with Ukraine are controlled by cables several tens of kilometres long. A new defensive tool cuts the cables to stop the drones
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A phenomenon known as true polar wander, different to the movement of the magnetic poles, may be more common and more dramatic than previously known www.newscientist.com/article/2591...
Earth’s geographic poles wander more than we had thought | New Scientist
A phenomenon known as true polar wander, different to the movement of the magnetic poles, may be more common and more dramatic than previously known
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“Our discovery and descriptions of these new freshwater mussel species demonstrate how much we still have to learn about the biodiversity in our rivers," phys.org/news/2026-10...
After using a technique called molecular clock analysis, researchers have proposed that the origin of animals could be 200 million years earlier than thought. www.livescience.com/planet-earth...
Animals may have evolved 200 million years earlier than previously thought, new study suggests
After using a technique called molecular clock analysis, researchers have proposed that the origin of animals could be 200 million years earlier than thought.
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Forever chemicals, also known as PFAS (short for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances), can be found in more than 90% of Americans, who are exposed to the chemicals in consumer products, food and drinking water. phys.org/news/2026-10...
A compound in vanilla pods has anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, and antioxidant properties. www.popsci.com/health/vanil...
Vanilla could help heal wounds
A compound in vanilla pods has anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, and antioxidant properties.
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GIS management teams have life-saving technology at their disposal. Data collected from geospatial equipment can improve disaster recovery, save survivors and rebuild communities more effectively. Source: TechBullion Original article: techbullion.com/why-is-geosp...
Why Is Geospatial Data Analysis Crucial for Disaster Management?
People need help responding to and preparing for ever-increasing natural disasters, which geographic information system (GIS) experts can provide. Data gathering is crucial to protect neighborhoods as...
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“The fact that the core spans two and a half glacial cycles allows us to see two fresh-to-salty transitions. “It allows us to compare the two fresh lake events for their duration and freshness, to see how fragile and fleeting these moments are.” dornsife.usc.edu/news/stories...
Great Salt Lake’s history shows how quickly fresh water can vanish
USC Dornsife research on 240,000 years of change reveals that vast freshwater lakes were fleeting as warming and drying reshaped the basin
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Less than one-third of the world's seafloor has been mapped in high-resolution detail. That means we have a clearer picture of the surface of Mars than we do of Earth’s ocean floor. environment.yale.edu/news/article...
Mapping the Abyss: A Conversation with Oceanographer Dawn Wright
Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Dawn Wright discusses the scientific advances revealing the ocean floor, and why the work is increasingly urgent for climate resilience, coastal safety, and global comm...
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The light-controlled switch for nerve cells allows scientists to map the brain “in a way that we could once only dream of,” Per Svenningsson stanforddaily.com/2026/10/06/k...
Stanford professor Karl Deisseroth, Ph.D. ’98, M.D. ’00, wins Nobel Prize for new way to study the brain using light
“His creativity and fearlessness have let him do things no one else would have thought of doing or dared to do,” his son Alexander Deisseroth ’30 told The Daily.
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…magnetofossils, the microscopic structures come in shapes resembling spearheads, spindles, bullets, and needles. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
97-million-year-old fossils reveal the earliest known animal “GPS”
Mysterious 97-million-year-old magnetic fossils may be the oldest evidence of an animal using Earth’s magnetic field like a built-in GPS. Their sophisticated magnetic structure could have helped an un...
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Cool list. I support science and research! www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/s...
What Are the Biggest Questions in Science Today? 100 Scientists Weigh In.
We asked 100 scientists about unsolved problems in their fields. They sent back provocations — on the origins of life, the possibilities for human progress and much more.
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Stone tools dating to at least 1.04 million years ago have been found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. This means early hominins made a major sea crossing from the Asian mainland much earlier than previously thought – and they likely didn’t have any boats. mappingignorance.org/2025/08/13/h...
Hominins got to Sulawesi 1 million years ago with no boat
Stone tools dating to at least 1.04 million years ago have been found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. Early hominins had no boats.
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…unearthed stone tools proving that humans reached what is now northeast Brazil as early as 22,000 years ago… www.nytimes.com/2014/03/28/w...
Discoveries Challenge Beliefs on Humans’ Arrival in the Americas (Published 2014)
Archaeologists say humans reached what is now northeast Brazil as early as 22,000 years ago, upending a prevailing belief of 20th-century archaeology in the United States that people arrived in the Am...
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Collecting together such a large pool of data allowed the researchers to amass a small but significant sample of 975 children who had been exposed to pathogens such as toxoplasmosis, syphilis, rubella, cytomegalovirus, or herpes simplex while still in the womb. newatlas.com/disease/infe...
Rare placenta-crossing infections triple risk of autism in children
Suspicions of a link between extremely rare congenital infections and the development of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have been supported by a massive new study led by scientists from the Karolinska...
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A growing body of evidence indicates that factors such as rising temperatures and extreme weather are contributing to what some researchers have called “the slow pandemic.” eos.org/features/ant...
Antimicrobial Resistance Is Killing Millions. Climate Change Is Making It Worse. - Eos
A growing body of evidence indicates that factors such as rising temperatures and extreme weather are contributing to what some researchers have called “the slow pandemic.”
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Without the suppressive effects of younger vegetation, Alaskan fire activity would be 5 times higher. eos.org/research-spo...
In Alaska, Wildfires Help Prevent Future Burns. Will That Feedback Loop Hold? - Eos
Without the suppressive effects of younger vegetation, Alaskan fire activity would be 5 times higher.
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…findings show that fish gills host a complex and specialized microbiome that is not yet well understood but could play an important role in fish metabolism, immunity and health. phys.org/news/2026-09...
DNA reveals chemosynthesis genes in bacteria living on coral reef fish gills
Chemosynthetic bacteria have been documented in various marine environments and in association with invertebrate hosts such as annelid worms and mollusks, but their presence in fish appears to be a ne...
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One of the largest images from the James Webb Space Telescope so far reveals an intricate landscape of dwarf stars and spectacular clouds. www.livescience.com/space/astron...
James Webb telescope shares one of its biggest images ever, with record-breaking stars hiding in the dust — Space photo of the week
One of the largest images from the James Webb Space Telescope so far reveals an intricate landscape of dwarf stars and spectacular clouds.
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Scientists are chasing hail to understand what’s happening to these dangerous projectiles. www.vox.com/climate/5040...
This weather threat costs us billions. And it’s about to get worse.
Scientists are chasing hail to understand what’s happening to these dangerous projectiles.
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By studying winds, currents, and voyage times, he found ways to make ocean travel faster, safer, and more predictable, helping transform navigation into a science. It’s data! everything-everywhere.com/matthew-font...
Matthew Fontaine Maury: The Man Who Revolutionized Ocean Navigation
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The trend could have important consequences for weather, rainfall, storms, and sea level in regions around the Atlantic and beyond. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
Scientists say a critical Atlantic Ocean current is weakening and the effects could be global
Scientists have found strong observational evidence that a key part of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation has been weakening across a wide stretch of ocean for nearly two decades. The slo...
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