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About seven young lions surrounded a massive hippo at a Botswana waterhole and even chased it into the water, but one intimidating turn from the several-ton animal was enough to make the entire pride reconsider its plan
1+ hour, 1+ min ago (664+ words) Seven lions surrounded a massive hippo at a Botswana waterhole. What happened next offers a lesson about knowing when to walk away. By ECONEWS · Editorial process So yes, from one second to another, the lions stepped back and what looked…...
Astronomers finally found the edge of the largest known galaxy after removing the glare from more than 250 foreground stars, revealing a 1.7-million-light-year giant containing roughly 3.4 trillion Suns worth of stars
3+ hour, 6+ min ago (603+ words) How can you measure something when its outer light blends into the light of an entire cluster? Researchers found the physical boundary. By Sonia Ramírez · Editorial process How can you measure something when its outer light blends into the light…...
An island off Chile turned to solar panels floating on water for electricity, and the unusual installation shows what happens when renewable energy has to work somewhere ordinary land-based solar simply does not fit
6+ hour, 7+ min ago (435+ words) An island off Chile turned to solar panels floating on water for electricity, and the unusual installation shows what happens when By Adrian Villellas · Editorial process And yes,the farm still keeps diesel generators available, but the project itself is…...
Scientists examined an ancient oyster with strange tooth-like structures and discovered that the tiny fossil was preserving a chapter from millions of years ago when mollusks spread across what would eventually become Chesapeake Bay
19+ hour, 5+ min ago (555+ words) Scientists examined an ancient oyster with strange tooth-like structures and discovered that the tiny fossil was preserving a chap By ECONEWS · Editorial process The specimen, of course now, is preserved and held in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History....
A 10-year-old boy trained swallowtail butterfly caterpillars to avoid the scent of lavender and then watched as they turned into butterflies; and when 71 % of the adult butterflies continued to avoid that same scent, he began to wonder if, somehow, the memory had survived the metamorphosis
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (625+ words) A 10-year-old boy trained swallowtail butterfly caterpillars to avoid the scent of lavender and then watched as they turned into b By Kevin Montien · Editorial process So the question is: Can a butterfly carry a caterpillar’s lesson through the chrysalis?...
A 661-pound wall of 1,482 magnets can deflect solar protons without power or cooling, offering a surprisingly simple solution for protecting astronauts in deep space
1+ day, 22+ hour ago (643+ words) A wall of 1,482 neodymium magnets could shield astronauts from solar radiation during space travel without electricity or cooling. By Sonia Ramírez · Editorial process Engineers are exploring a fairly simple solution that uses a compact panel of about 1,500 neodymium magnets that…...
Beavers kept rebuilding dams in Oregon’s aging canal, turning a century-old embankment into a safety hazard engineers finally had to address
2+ day, 1+ hour ago (517+ words) Beavers rebuilt dams in Oregon's century-old canal, forcing water managers to repeatedly remove the animals to prevent safety hazards. By Adrian Villellas · Editorial process It is also important to contextualize the Leaburg project. It was built at the end of…...
Workers built an Arizona solar farm to generate electricity beneath the desert sun, but tiny burrowing owls moved into the landscape and turned part of the energy project into an unexpected nursery for their chicks
2+ day, 3+ hour ago (667+ words) Burrowing owls moved into an Arizona solar farm, where artificial tunnels became an unexpected nursery for 36 chicks. By Adrian Villellas · Editorial process At a 10,000-acre solar farm in the west of Phoenix, thousands of panels were built to turn desert…...
A trail camera in British Columbia recorded a wild wolf swimming out to a buoy, dragging a completely submerged crab trap onto the beach by its rope and then spending three minutes figuring out how to open the bait cup
2+ day, 20+ hour ago (678+ words) A wild wolf pulled a submerged crab trap ashore in British Columbia, revealing a remarkable display of problem-solving. By Kevin Montien · Editorial process So now yes, when was this? On May 29, 2024, remote cameras near Bella Bella captured the female at…...
In 1822, villagers found a white stork alive in Germany with an African spear lodged through its neck, and the wounded bird ended up providing some of the first physical proof that birds crossed continents during migration
3+ day, 1+ hour ago (722+ words) A stork returned to Germany with an African spear through its body, leaving remarkable evidence of migration across continents. By Sonia Ramírez · Editorial process The seasonal journeys birds make in search of food, safe nesting and living conditions is not…...