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On a nearly lifeless Dutch sandpit lake, engineers hung 20 shell filled cages under 73,000 floating solar panels, and within three years the dark water below held 400 fish and nearly 2,000 creatures
6+ hour, 51+ min ago (734+ words) Something was happening in the dark water beneath a Dutch lake. And for a long time, nobody up on the surface had any idea. The lake was covered by a vast raft of 73,000 solar panels. They floated on the water,…...
Scientists put 258 spider species through a speed test, and a hand-sized Australian huntsman outran them all at nearly 8 mph
3+ hour, 45+ min ago (571+ words) The study, posted to the preprint server bioRxiv on June 15, 2025, is one of the broadest locomotion analyses ever conducted on arachnids. Researchers compiled speed data across 258 spider species, combining fresh lab experiments with previously published findings. It hasn’t been peer-reviewed…...
Nearly 1 in 5 tons of the world's plastic goes into construction, and researchers keep finding those same plastic particles lodged inside the river fish that families catch on weekend mornings
4+ hour, 51+ min ago (745+ words) Walk past any construction site in America and you see it: freshly poured concrete, smooth and grey, holding up the frame of someone’s future home. It is the most unremarkable thing in the world. But something invisible is leaving those…...
A creature crawling out of the Atlantic every spring for 450 million years carries blood worth $60,000 a gallon, and the hidden industry built around it touches everyone who has ever received a vaccine
3+ hour, 51+ min ago (757+ words) Every spring, millions of them crawl out of the Atlantic Ocean onto US beaches in the dark. Most people step around them and walk on. What almost nobody on that beach knows is that the creature under their feet is…...
In Oklahoma, 84 wind turbines were built on 60-foot-wide craters, but a judge ordered them dismantled after ruling the project amounted to mining without a permit
7+ hour, 45+ min ago (561+ words) Massive circular holes measuring roughly 60 feet across sat beneath the wind turbines. Most people noticed the towers above them. Much less attention was paid to the ground below. For years, the wind farm has generated renewable energy. But beneath the…...
A rust-colored pack hunter absent for decades had vanished from a landscape watched by 83 camera traps in northeastern India, and the six photographs taken on one October night changed that assumption entirely
7+ hour, 51+ min ago (650+ words) Something crossed a trail camera in the forests of northeastern India on the last day of October 2022. It triggered the sensor six times in a single pass. The researchers reviewing the images went very still. The Kaziranga-Karbi Anglong Landscape in…...
Solar panels are promised to pay back their cost in 6 to 10 years, but over 138 species of bird are discovering a signal hidden inside the glass that nobody planned for
10+ hour, 51+ min ago (772+ words) Every spring, tens of millions of migratory birds lift off from America’s wetlands and start reading the land below like a map. They have done it for millions of years. Water is their compass point, their rest stop, their lifeline…...
In California, the turbines were so loud that nearby squirrels began standing watch like tiny security guards
11+ hour, 45+ min ago (681+ words) The expansion of renewable energy worldwide is accelerating, and now wind turbines are presenting an ecological challenge we did not plan for. Conservationists are starting to focus more and more on the acoustic footprint of the spinning blades. We now…...
A bee brain the size of a sesame seed passed a rhythm test that once excluded all insects, and it turns out to belong to a very short list of creatures that can read time
12+ hour, 51+ min ago (751+ words) It is a Saturday morning and the bumblebee on your coneflower is doing what bumblebees do: hovering, landing, drinking, moving on. You have probably never given it a second thought. But inside that fuzzy body, something is running that scientists…...
A 9.1 million pound dragline was hauled across Texas in 27 loads in 2024, and the giant pit it left behind is becoming something almost nobody in the mining business expected
8+ hour, 51+ min ago (817+ words) Something enormous moved through Texas in 2024, and most people had no idea it was happening. It traveled at a crawl, spreading across multiple lanes, bending traffic detours around small towns and low bridges. It was not one load. It was…...