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For wildlife, a busy highway can be more than an obstacle. It can separate feeding grounds, disrupt seasonal migrations and turn an ordinary journey into a deadly gamble. In Colorado, a new network of wildlife crossings is helping change that equation, with officials reporting a sharp decline in collisions along a heavily travelled stretch of…

Nearly a decade after a controversial highway project damaged sensitive bushland in Western Australia, a long-running rehabilitation effort is showing encouraging signs of ecological recovery, although restoring the landscape to its former condition remains a distant goal. According to a report by ABC News journalist Lauren Smith, a recent survey of the former Roe 8…

Imagine Texas and California pushed together into one patch of land. Now picture all of it cut down, burned or otherwise gone. That is roughly the amount of original primary forest the Amazon has lost, according to a new report from Amazon Conservation’s Monitoring of the Andes Amazon Program (MAAP). The latest analysis found that…

Coral larvae settled most near the speaker, with bacteria-coated structures showing stronger results than artificial surfaces alone. A reef may be built from concrete and carefully engineered structures, but for young marine life, it appears that the right soundtrack could matter too. In Hawaiʻi, scientists have been experimenting with an unusual approach to reef restoration,…

Alekha GoldbergPhoto credit: Society for science When Alekha Goldberg’s older brother suffered a traumatic brain injury during a violent attack in Washington, D.C., she saw how deeply the injury changed his everyday life. He faced long-term problems with memory, thinking and brain fatigue, difficulties that affected both his work and daily routines. Rather than simply…

An ancient residence believed to be the grandest in the Pompeii archaeological site is being restored with a $1.6 million budget (1.4 million euros), entirely covered by a private sponsor, officials announced on Tuesday. Part of it is expected to open to guided groups by Christmas, said officials of the Archaeological Park of Pompeii. House…

A 31-ton propane tank and steel tower once used for firefighter training in Mississippi have been sunk about 13 miles offshore to create an artificial reef for marine life. Supported by Chevron and local organisations, the project aims to provide shelter for fish and improve fishing opportunities. A similar reef created in 2023 now supports…

In 2018, Delaware turned nearly one million tons of rock excavated from a shipping channel into underwater habitats for marine life, rather than disposing of the material elsewhere. The US Army Corps of Engineers partnered with Delaware’s Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC) to transport the rock to two artificial reef sites in…

Ryan Chan, Fausto Kang, lecturer Sathappan Ramesh and Jason Konadu pose with the 2026 Dean’s Design Award for Electrical and Computer Engineering. Three students at Johns Hopkins University have developed SweatSense, a non-invasive device designed to help people monitor kidney-health indicators using sweat instead of relying solely on conventional blood and urine tests. The project,…

Isabel enjoys working through equations and mathematical proofs in her spare time (Photo: Society for science) A 14-year-old student from Williamsburg, Virginia, has earned her a place among 30 finalists in the 2026 Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge for finding a new way to position earthquake sensors.Earthquake sensors can help detect seismic activity and…