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Abandoned fishing nets that once threatened marine life around Hawaii are being turned into electricity through a programme established in 2002. The Hawaii Nets to Energy Program collects discarded nets from fishermen and local removal groups before processing them for combustion at Honolulu’s H-Power waste-to-energy facility. According to NOAA Ocean Today, 832 tons of fishing…

Photo credit: The British Museum A drinking cup made around 1,600 years ago has a remarkable property: it can appear green when light falls on it and ruby red when light shines through it. Now, researchers at the University of Sheffield have recreated the unusual glass effect, offering a new understanding of the technique used…

Mark Zuckerberg with his wife Priscilla Chan in 2014. Image Credit: Wikipedia Researchers at Biohub, an organisation backed by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative co-founded by Priscilla Chan, have identified potential new drug targets for psoriasis by combining AI with genetic screening. The study, published in Nature Communications, discovered 2 biological pathways that could help control…

(Image credit: Wikimedia Commons) Dreaming is an experience we often associate with humans but is it something that only humans experience? Scientists have long been curious to ascertain what may happen when other animals fall asleep. While certain sleep behaviours have been observed in mammals and birds, much less is known about how sleep works…

Millions of Americans will gain an extra hour on Sunday, November 1, when daylight saving time ends and clocks go back by one hour. But while the change may appear to offer a welcome chance to sleep longer, it can still leave some people feeling tired, groggy or out of step with their usual routine…

Bailey Quinn Frank, 15, from Fort Lauderdale, who built an air sampler with a small fan and filter paper to collect bacterial DNA (Image Credit: Society For Science) A 15-year-old student from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, has won a $25,000 science award for developing an affordable device that collects airborne bacterial DNA, with the potential to…

Scientists have captured rare footage of tiny Southeast Asian snakes performing rapid cartwheels to escape danger, revealing an unusual form of movement that allows the reptiles to travel at speeds of up to 12 feet per second. The findings, published in Current Biology on October 19, 2026, were reported by Science News, Live Science and…

An Italian farmer who planted unidentified seeds found in his family’s attic ended up rediscovering a little-known heritage wheat variety that could offer useful lessons for agriculture facing climate change. As reported by Smithsonian Magazine, Claudio Grossi, a farmer near Parma in northern Italy, discovered that one of the plants growing from the seeds produced…

Representative Image of a 10-meter ichthyosaur fossil displayed in a museum, highlighting its significance during the Jurassic period (AI-generated image) A 10-metre ichthyosaur discovered on a secluded beach near Bridport in Dorset has gone on display at Bridport Museum, bringing an unusual Jurassic fossil into public view. Belgian fossil hunters Michel Plissart and his partner…