2+ week, 5+ day ago   (528+ words) Published Aug 24, 2026 10:04 AM EDT Under the Trump administration, the federal government is sending wild horses straight into the meat grinder. An investigation by the New York Times found that the Bureau of Land Management is rounding up thousands of these…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (326+ words) Published Aug 1, 2026 12:01 PM EDT When you’re a scientist relying on government funding to conduct your research, and that government suddenly yoinks all your money in the name of “efficiency,” you have to get creative to keep the lights on. Such…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (227+ words) Published Jul 15, 2026 9:46 AM EDT There’s light pollution — and then there are giant orbital space mirrors that blot out the night sky. “We’re trying to build something that could replace fossil fuels and really power everything,” CEO Ben Nowack told The…...

2+ mon, 3+ day ago   (261+ words) Published Jul 9, 2026 4:53 PM EDT We’ve been hearing plenty about how Meta’s workforce is in total disarray. But this latest story takes the cake — or acorn, perhaps. As Wired reports, a squirrel got loose inside one of the company’s buildings in…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (231+ words) Published Jun 27, 2026 8:50 AM EDT Nobody likes a night interrupted by blinding artificial light, least of all the fish who make their home on coastal reefs. As a new study published in the journal Current Biology found, even a faint amount…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (258+ words) Published May 30, 2026 8:15 AM EDT A chunk of seemingly immortal sea cucumber tissue has scientists wondering if they’ve just stumbled on the secret to regenerating limbs. No, we are not kidding. “This is naturally occurring tissue immortality,” study lead author Sara…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (294+ words) Published May 16, 2026 9:00 AM EDT For millennia — since at least the time of Aristotle — medical thinkers have pondered why certain animals like salamanders are able to regrow entire lost limbs, while mammals like us humans have to make due without any…...

4+ mon, 2+ day ago   (245+ words) Published May 10, 2026 6:45 AM EDT Naturally, it’s powered by AI. In an interview with The Verge, Angle described the robot as a “physically embodied AI system” that uses an on-device generative AI model to interact with its owner and develop a…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (433+ words) Published Apr 24, 2026 1:56 PM EDT While big game hunting for food is an ancient practice, it’s more recently turned into a sport. It’s a contentious topic, with some arguing that big game hunting is key to ongoing conservation efforts, while others…...