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Floating solar panels sharply reduce light reaching the seabed in French Polynesia while having no detectable effect on lagoon water temperature |

Aj Mix Editor September 27, 2026

Floating photovoltaic (FPV) platforms in a French Polynesian lagoon substantially reduced the amount of light reaching the...

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Scientists developed a DNA test for four invasive snakes in Florida; Burmese python DNA was detected in water five minutes after exposure |

Aj Mix Editor September 27, 2026

Scientists have developed an environmental DNA test that can detect four invasive constrictor snakes in Florida from...

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Nasa thought an ancient Martian lake shaped these rocks; Perseverance found evidence of three water events |

Aj Mix Editor September 27, 2026

When Nasa’s Perseverance rover reached the inner edge of Jezero Crater in September 2023, scientists expected to...

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Scientists engineered bacteria to make stronger silk fibres using mussel protein fragments, boosting tensile strength by up to 345% |

Aj Mix Editor September 27, 2026

Scientists have engineered bacteria to produce a silk-based protein using a surprising ingredient: a protein fragment from...

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Archaeologists have discovered a 1,700-year-old Roman-era pyramid tomb in Egypt’s Dakhla Oasis; the small mud-brick monument combines Egyptian, Greek and Roman traditions and held a married couple

Aj Mix Editor September 27, 2026

A rare pyramid-shaped tomb dating to the Roman period has been uncovered at Bir Al-Shaghala in Egypt’s...

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A scientist turned an $80 motel room into a makeshift lab; then she discovered two new species of microscopic amoebae |

Aj Mix Editor September 27, 2026

A scientist turned an $80 motel room into a makeshift laboratory during follow-up fieldwork in North Carolina...

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Why reindeer eyes turn deep blue in winter and how it helps them see in Arctic twilight |

Aj Mix Editor September 27, 2026

Reindeer eyes undergo a striking seasonal change that helps them cope with the unusual light of the...

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Kenyan researchers are turning human poop from informal settlements into fertiliser; 1,000 farmers could benefit from the unusual waste-to-food cycle |

Aj Mix Editor September 27, 2026

Hope Ochieng and Charles Midega in the drying greenhouse at KIYA. Image Credit: Rebecca Nelson/Cornell Chronicle Kenyan...

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Dublin Bay had no native oysters for 200 years; 18,000 were placed in its harbour as a project began rebuilding a lost reef |

Aj Mix Editor September 27, 2026

For more than two centuries, native oysters were absent from Dublin Bay. That changed with a restoration...

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this ohio solar farm is now home to 3 million honey bees across more than 50 hives, turning an energy site into a home for pollinators |

Aj Mix Editor September 27, 2026

An Ohio solar site is becoming a working landscape for more than just electricity generation. At Big...

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