August 28, 2026

Science

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An invasive beetle wiped out black ash trees across parts of North America; scientists germinated 22,000 seeds, including genetic material from tree populations that no longer survive in the wild

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An invasive beetle wiped out black ash trees across parts of North America Researchers have created a...
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In 2007, only 6 Galápagos snapdragons were known to survive on remote lava fields; after conservationists planted 94 nursery-grown shrubs, the wild adult population has grown to 28

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Researchers transporting Galvezia leucantha subsp. Leucantha at the restoration site, preparing for its planting A critically endangered...
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Yale researchers found a new way to tackle ‘forever chemicals’: they make some PFAS molecules roughly twice as large so they separate from water and become easier to destroy

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forever checmicals(Representative image) Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are often called “forever chemicals” because their ultra-strong carbon–fluorine...
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Scientists found traces of two unknown ancient human lineages hiding in modern DNA; one split from our ancestors about 800,000 years ago, another around 1.8 million years ago |

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​Representative Image of ancient human evolution showing the genetic connections between humans, Neanderthals, and Denisovans (AI-generated image)...
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Meet Alyssa Yu, the 17-year-old Maryland student who built a mathematical model for what happens when 2 interacting infections spread at once and how vaccination could target the resulting hot spots

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Alyssa Yu (Poolesville High School, Poolesville, MD) A 17-year-old student from Maryland has developed a new mathematical...
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Meet Aashritha Penumudi, the 17-year-old Virginia student who created stalled ribosomes in the lab and trained AI on breast-cancer data; its predictions matched what she saw under the microscope

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Aashritha Penumudi (Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, Alexandria, VA) By combining laboratory biology with...
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