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Mississippi landowners restored woodland for gopher tortoises; two decades later the same habitat became a release site for nearly 500 endangered frogs

Aj Mix Editor August 19, 2026

The gopher tortoise is a land-dwelling reptile native to the southeastern United States that digs deep burrows...

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Meet Seth Nabat, the 18-year-old California student who built a two-network machine-learning system to track particle collisions; he won $40,000

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Seth NabatPhoto: Society for Science Every year, nearly 1,900 of the nation’s most promising high school seniors...

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Photography To Protect Endangered Species: In 2006, Joel Sartore began photographing one animal at a time; 18,000 species later, his Photo Ark has become a global conservation movement fighting to save wildlife from extinction

Aj Mix Editor August 19, 2026

Joel Sartore started the project with a simple but powerful idea: to photograph animals one species at...

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Quote of the day by Jane Goodall: “Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual…” |

Aj Mix Editor August 19, 2026

Jane Goodall spent decades studying chimpanzees in the wild before becoming one of the world’s most recognisable...

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Nature invented biodegradable plastic millions of years ago and animals have been eating it ever since; scientists now think it could offer a clue to Earth’s plastic crisis

Aj Mix Editor August 19, 2026

The study began with an unusual marine worm, Olavius algarvensis. The little animal has neither a mouth...

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CERN, where scientists smash particles at nearly the speed of light, has a 2-metre Shiva Nataraja statue outside; why India gifted the cosmic dancer to the physics lab in 2004

Aj Mix Editor August 19, 2026

Lord Shiva Statue Unveiled (CERN official) For those who don’t know, CERN is Conseil Européen pour la...

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China Orbital Rocket Recovery: China becomes first to recover orbital rockets using two methods: How Zhuque-3 works

Aj Mix Editor August 19, 2026

The milestone was achieved on Wednesday by the Chinese private space company LandSpace China has successfully recovered...

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A Spanish woman turned 18 rescued donkeys into a wildfire-fighting team, with the animals grazing for up to 7 hours a day; her unusual conservation idea is helping prevent fires before they start

Aj Mix Editor August 19, 2026

In the sun-drenched hills of Andalusia, Spain, an unlikely team of firefighters is making headlines. They don’t...

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Between 1969 and 1972, the US released a European weevil to fight invasive musk thistle; it later attacked at least 25 native thistles, including rare and endangered species

Aj Mix Editor August 19, 2026

Rhinocyllus conicus (Image Credit: Canva) A biological control programme launched in the United States more than five...

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In 2011, a tiny turtle disappeared into the Massachusetts wild. 15 years later, her daughters were released into the wild |

Aj Mix Editor August 19, 2026

In 2011, Ivy was released into a Massachusetts marsh as a tiny seven-gram Blanding’s turtle after spending...

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