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Meet Finnegan McGill, the 18-year-old Arizona student who spent four years building an AI device that can identify birds from their calls and pinpoint where they are |

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Finnegan McGill. Image Credit: Chris Ayers/Society for Science Finnegan McGill has spent more than four years turning...

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In 1968, Montana began stocking tiny shrimp to feed kokanee salmon; after they reached Flathead Lake, the salmon collapsed and hundreds of bald eagles and bears lost a reliable food source

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An ecosystem collapse in Montana remains a lasting lesson in how well-intentioned wildlife management can have devastating...

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In 1961, British scientists stopped farming a 4-hectare barley field and left it alone; 60 years later, it had turned itself into a complex native woodland

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The four-hectare barley field was abandoned in 1961 after researchers harvested its final crop, allowing nature to...

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Scientists create a brain-to-brain network that lets people communicate without words, offering a breakthrough for human communication |

Aj Mix Editor August 19, 2026

Brain-to-Brain communication between humans. Image Credit: PASIEKA/Science Photo Library/Corbis Scientists have demonstrated direct brain-to-brain communication using a...

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AI scanned 15,000 bird skeletons and found bursts of evolution linked to major climate shifts over 45 million years |

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For millions of years, birds have been changing in ways that are difficult to see from the...

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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

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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

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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…” |

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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

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

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