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“In a savage and ever-changing world, some will rise and some will fall. But through it all, the dinosaurs will expand their empire and advance relentlessly to seize Earth’s final frontiers,” narrated Morgan Freeman in the 2026 Netflix miniseries: The Dinosaurs. Nearly 66 million years ago, the Earth as we know it, was transformed, shrouded…

A person suffering from Alzheimer’s (Image- Canva) Old age is a dreadful stage, with tiredness, pain and diseases always around the corner. One such uninvited guest is Alzheimer’s disease. But there’s something interesting that scientists have noticed in people with Alzheimer’s. Some people, even though they show clear signs of Alzheimer’s, never develop dementia. While…

When Bili the baby gorilla was rescued from wildlife traffickers in Nigeria in 2023, she was sick, frightened, and so young that she needed constant reassurance from her human caregivers. For the next three years, she would sleep clinging to a rescuer, gradually recover from illness and learn to trust again. Now, after an international…

Nelson’s innovative underwater camera uses AI to track marine biodiversity, helping researchers monitor ecosystem recovery and restoration progress. At just 13, Isaac Nelson is tackling an environmental challenge that has troubled Florida’s coastal ecosystems for years. Armed with scientific curiosity, community support and a determination to restore the waters around Jupiter Inlet, the young conservationist…

MIT (source- Wikimedia commons) We have all tried origami, folding paper into different shapes and sizes. But what if I told you that engineers at MIT are using a completely different material for their origami? MIT researchers have developed an origami-inspired construction method that can turn flat aluminium sheets into lightweight, rigid structures capable of…

North Carolina city restores 27 acres of wetlands to reduce flood risks for 93 properties (Image Credit: City of Hendersonville) A North Carolina city has completed the first phase of a floodplain restoration project more than two decades after acquiring land vulnerable to flooding. The City of Hendersonville’s Lower Mud Creek Floodplain Restoration Project has…

Image of the mysterious spacecraft (Photo: DIA) US Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) has released a rare photograph of China’s secretive Shenlong space plane, showing it attached to another spacecraft in orbit with its cargo compartment open. The image, released on Monday, was taken in May 2024 by a US satellite from about 90 kilometres away….

An autonomous drone demonstrated by Purdue University computer science professor Aniket Bera can follow a person through a forest, manoeuvre around trees and estimate their movements when they disappear from view. Bera, an associate professor at the university and director of its IDEAS Lab, shared a 44-second video of the demonstration on LinkedIn on October…

This image shows the orbital pathway of the newly discovered dwarf planet candidate 2026 ED138. For years, Pluto held a place among the solar system’s nine planets, until its status changed in 2006. Now, a newly discovered icy object lurking beyond Pluto has reignited interest in the distant worlds at the edge of our solar…