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A Michigan scientist buried seeds in 20 glass bottles in 1879; 142 years later, some still grew, and the experiment is set to run until 2100

Aj Mix Editor September 5, 2026

Michigan State University botanist William James Beal buried 20 glass bottles filled with seeds In 1879, Michigan...

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A ‘devil flower’ with no leaves, no branches, no green part has been discovered in a Thai forest, scientists say its bizarre appearance is hiding an even stranger secret

Aj Mix Editor September 5, 2026

It has no leaves, no branches and no green parts, and spends much of its life concealed...

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A huge forested island appeared in a British Columbia reservoir, vanished, then resurfaced 30 km away 15 days later with trees, birds and other animals still aboard

Aj Mix Editor September 5, 2026

British Columbia reservoirRepresentative image from Canva In the summer of 2026, workers and residents around the Williston...

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A parasitic wasp turns caterpillars into zombie bodyguards; they spend their final hours protecting the larvae eating them alive |

Aj Mix Editor September 5, 2026

​Representative Image of a caterpillar guarding wasp larvae and aggressively swinging its head at approaching predators (AI-generated...

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Meet Onndinadaho Rasilwela, the South African student who turned sugarcane and maize waste into biodegradable plastic |

Aj Mix Editor September 5, 2026

​Representative Image of biodegradable plastic made from sugarcane and maize waste (AI-generated image) Onndinadaho Rasilwela, a chemical...

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Trees have their own version of muscles: Scientists discover how they sense a tilt and straighten themselves, a lesson in how nature finds its balance

Aj Mix Editor September 5, 2026

To study proprioception alone, the researchers had to remove other cues that normally affect a tree’s growth....

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Gold miners have breached a refuge built for rescued orangutans; 14 hectares of Indonesia’s sanctuary damaged in 3 years

Aj Mix Editor September 4, 2026

Illegal gold miners have encroached on Indonesia’s Jantho forest reservation, a vital reintroduction site for the critically...

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In 1989, Detroit Zoo began helping save snails wiped out in the wild; 37 years later, 500 are travelling 5,000 miles to Tahiti, part of a program that has returned 17,000

Aj Mix Editor September 4, 2026

Representative Image (AI-generated) A conservation effort that began nearly four decades ago is sending hundreds of tiny...

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Meet Lilah Mehta, the Connecticut high-school student who entered a Yale lab at 16 and is already a co-author of published research

Aj Mix Editor September 4, 2026

When Lilah Mehta entered a biomedical research laboratory at Yale University as a 16-year-old high-school pupil, her...

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Quote of the day by Neil deGrasse Tyson: “If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it’s not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true” |

Aj Mix Editor September 4, 2026

In an age when information moves faster than ever, distinguishing between what is true and what people...

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