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UC San Diego biologists identified the genetic switch that gave butterflies an extra light-detecting cell in their eyes, expanding their colour vision beyond imagination

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The researchers found that butterflies did not redesign their entire visual system. Instead, they effectively duplicated one...

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A washing-machine-sized NASA supported spacecraft will approach four defunct satellites and rocket bodies, testing technology that could one day help repair spacecraft or remove orbital debris

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Otter will travel to within hundreds of yards of each object and examine it without making physical...

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In 2015, researchers began tracking wells dug by wild horses and donkeys in Arizona’s Sonoran Desert; by 2018, they found some supplied up to 74% of available surface water and were used by 57 vertebrate species

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When summer heat dries up streams in the Sonoran Desert, wild horses and donkeys can do something...

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A 100-kg green anaconda can almost vanish in the Amazon; scientists found giant snakes hiding under logs, leaf matter, vegetation, and riverbanks |

Aj Mix Editor October 11, 2026

Green anacondas can remain difficult to spot in the western Amazon, even when they weigh 100 kg....

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Archaeologists found possibly 13,000-year-old Clovis sites at 9,500 feet near Yellowstone; the discovery challenges what scientists thought about ancient glaciers |

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A Clovis point discovered in the Beartooth Mountains (Image: Nick Mott) Imagine standing at 9,500 feet in...

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Jim and Marilyn Simons lent their 68-metre superyacht to ocean scientists; an $80,000 system tested whether luxury vessels could help validate satellite data |

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Representative Image of a luxurious superyacht conducting marine science research in the Antarctic waters under clear skies...

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US wildlife partners spent years protecting more than 1,700 acres along Wisconsin’s Lake Superior shore; the project has restored wetlands, treated invasive plants and reconnected cold-water habitat

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Photo credit: Sara Rubinstein/Courtesy of the Trust for Public A multi-year conservation project along Wisconsin’s Lake Superior...

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California restored former grazing land at Dutch Slough into tidal marsh; between 2020 and 2025 Marsh Wren density jumped from 0.15 to 18.47 birds per hectare, an increase of more than 12,000%

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California’s efforts to restore wetlands in the Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta are showing measurable benefits for marsh-dwelling birds,...

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Scientists planted 40,000 native seedlings in Yosemite’s damaged Tuolumne Meadows; three years later, soil organic matter was improving, but the meadow was still losing more carbon than it gained

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Native sedges growing in a wet meadow (Representational photo) Scientists who planted 40,000 native sedge seedling to...

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15 guanacos were taken to a remote Falklands island in the 1930s; their descendants kept their genetic diversity through two severe population crashes |

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In the late 1930s, a small group of guanacos, native South American camelids, was shipped from southern...

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