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In 2022, French researchers used moving solar panels to shade apple trees, cutting sunburn damage from 13% to 2% |

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Representative Image of an apple orchard with solar panels providing shade while generating electricity (AI-generated image) In 2022, researchers running a field experiment in southern France found that moving solar panels installed above an apple orchard sharply reduced sunburn damage on the fruit. The system, known as a dynamic agrivoltaic setup, tilts photovoltaic panels through…

American scientists are building a $12 million ‘digital brain’ for drones based on how insects make decisions with limited information |

Santanu3 weeks ago04 mins

A $12 million research project at Penn State is trying to give drones a new way of making decisions, drawing inspiration from the small brains of insects and other animals. Funded by the US Army’s Army Research Laboratory, the project aims to develop an onboard sensing system that can pick out useful information without sending…

Scientists discover nearly 400 fossils in France revealing life near the South Pole 470 million years ago |

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Snow-covered mountain ranges of the Montagne Noire. Image Credit: Von Christian Ferrer/Wikipedia Nearly 400 fossils discovered in southern France are giving scientists a detailed view of marine life that lived close to the South Pole about 470 million years ago. The fossils belong to the newly described Cabrières Biota, an Early Ordovician fossil site in…

In 1944, 29 reindeer were left on a remote island in Alaska, decades later, they had eaten themselves into extinction

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What happened to the reindeer on St. Matthew Island is a classic story of wildlife boom and bust. In 1944, the US Coast Guard corralled 29 Nunivak Island reindeer on a barge and floated the animals north to the island, more than 200 miles away to one of the most remote places in Alaska. While…

Meet Aniket Sarkar: The 13-year-old 3M Young Scientist who built a low-cost system to capture water from dry air for farmers |

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PC: 3M Young Scientist Lab Dry air is not completely without water. There is moisture suspended in the atmosphere even when rainfall is scarce, and 13-year-old Aniket Sarkar wanted to find out whether some of it could be recovered for agriculture. His idea led to a low-cost atmospheric water capture system built with ordinary materials,…

Florida Atlantic University received $600,379 grant to develop 3D-printed adsorbents that remove phosphorus and combat harmful algal blooms |

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Harmful algal blooms can turn freshwater ecosystems into dangerous environments, but researchers at Florida Atlantic University are developing a novel way to tackle one of the nutrients that helps drive them, excess phosphorus. Rather than removing algae after a bloom has already formed, the team is developing 3D-printed adsorbent structures designed to capture phosphate directly…

Tasmania spent 28 years removing invasive carp from two lakes; after 49,301 fish were taken out, the state declared carp functionally eradicated and trout began bouncing back

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Invasive Species: Why Are Asian Carp a Problem? An intensive 28-year eradication campaign has eliminated common carp from two major Tasmanian lakes, achieving what fisheries experts around the world once considered almost impossible in a large, open freshwater system. The Tasmanian Inland Fisheries Service (IFS) has officially declared European carp (Cyprinus carpio) functionally eradicated from…

In 1978, just 10 to 15 cane toads were moved to Ishigaki Island. Decades later, their population increased to 20,000 with surprising evolutionary change |

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On Ishigaki Island, cane toads have been living in conditions quite different from those faced by the populations from which they came. The island is warm, wet and separated from mainland habitats, and the animals introduced there in the late 1970s have now had several decades to establish themselves. When scientists compared these Japanese toads…

In 2006, Idaho launched a bounty-and-netting war on invasive lake trout; a decade later adult numbers were down 64% and Lake Pend Oreille’s kokanee had rebounded

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An aggressive campaign using commercial nets and angler bounties helped turn around a decade-long fight against non-native predators in northern Idaho’s largest lake. By 2016, ten years after the Idaho Department of Fish and Game (IDFG) began its suppression programme on Lake Pend Oreille, the number of adult lake trout had fallen by 64 per…

In 2002, New Mexico began one of America’s largest native-fish restoration projects; more than two decades later Rio Grande cutthroat trout had returned to 120 miles of streams

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A major conservation effort launched in 2002 has restored New Mexico’s official state fish to more than 120 miles of connected mountain streams, marking one of the largest native fish restoration projects in the United States. For more than two decades, state and federal conservation agencies have worked to remove non-native predators and restore high-altitude…

Underwater sensors caught a rare event off Cornwall: one porpoise became trapped in a net while two animals exchanged possible distress calls

Sea otters returned to a polluted California estuary in 1984; eelgrass expanded 600%, while marsh-edge erosion later slowed by 69% on average

Brazil restored a former cattle landscape with native trees; decades later, lowland tapirs returned after disappearing for 100 years |

Quote of the day by Isaac Newton: “Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things” |

A Scottish river project set out to revive oysters that once covered an area the size of Edinburgh; now, 60,000 have been returned |

In 2015, Canada sank a 113-metre retired warship off British Columbia; five years later, monitoring had recorded more than 170 marine species on the wreck

Human hair, receipts, fishing nets, and eggshells were among 17 waste materials tested to create stronger, lower-carbon cement building products |

Meet Franklin Howley-Dumit Serulle, the amateur naturalist whose online insect photo helped reveal a new hoverfly species |

Meet Naidely Valeria Vidaurre-Quesada, the scientist who helped uncover a ghost shark species hiding in Costa Rica’s dark waters |

From 2012 to 2022, nearly 30,000 commercial vessel arrivals brought 430 sq km of submerged hull surface to Alaska; biofouling habitat grew 50%, increasing invasive-species risk

In 2022, French researchers used moving solar panels to shade apple trees, cutting sunburn damage from 13% to 2% |

American scientists are building a $12 million ‘digital brain’ for drones based on how insects make decisions with limited information |

Scientists discover nearly 400 fossils in France revealing life near the South Pole 470 million years ago |

In 1944, 29 reindeer were left on a remote island in Alaska, decades later, they had eaten themselves into extinction

Meet Aniket Sarkar: The 13-year-old 3M Young Scientist who built a low-cost system to capture water from dry air for farmers |

Florida Atlantic University received $600,379 grant to develop 3D-printed adsorbents that remove phosphorus and combat harmful algal blooms |

Tasmania spent 28 years removing invasive carp from two lakes; after 49,301 fish were taken out, the state declared carp functionally eradicated and trout began bouncing back

In 1978, just 10 to 15 cane toads were moved to Ishigaki Island. Decades later, their population increased to 20,000 with surprising evolutionary change |

In 2006, Idaho launched a bounty-and-netting war on invasive lake trout; a decade later adult numbers were down 64% and Lake Pend Oreille’s kokanee had rebounded

In 2002, New Mexico began one of America’s largest native-fish restoration projects; more than two decades later Rio Grande cutthroat trout had returned to 120 miles of streams