The battle to save one of the planet’s best fossil preserves
Kate Evans for Undark Kate Evans is a freelance science journalist and writer based in Raglan, New Zealand. Follow her on Twitter @kate_g_evans. This article …
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This incredibly rare orchid survives by making male beetles horny
J Hardwick Plos OneBiologists thought Disa forficaria orchids went extinct twice. Once in 2018, when a single specimen was found after 52 years without a …
The next pandemic could be lurking anywhere. Can this wildlife-tracking app help prevent it?
Oswaldo Cruz FoundationOne afternoon in 2018, Carlos Alberto Martins da Silva was hiking in Brazil’s Serra dos Órgãos National Park, a wonderland outside Rio de Janeiro …
Seed banks are full of hidden fungi, and scientists love it
Rowena HillRowena Hill is a PhD candidate in fungi at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and Queen Mary University of London. Ester Gaya is a …
Solar panels and water canals could form a real power couple in California
Solar Aqua Grid LLCCalifornia has around 4,000 miles of canals that shuttle clean water throughout the state. New research shows that these canals can do …
Ask Us Anything: What would happen if you fell into a black hole?
Katie Belloff/Popular ScienceIs your head constantly spinning with outlandish, mind-burning questions? If you’ve ever wondered what the universe is made of, what would happen if …
Putting cows on a seaweed diet helps curb their methane burps
Hugo Kruip for Unsplash Expanding a cow’s diet to include a pinch of seaweed could go a long way in helping tame their burps and …
Ask Us Anything: Can you survive on a single food forever?
Katie Belloff/Popular ScienceIs your head constantly spinning with outlandish, mind-burning questions? If you’ve ever wondered what the universe is made of, what would happen if …
Researchers just measured Jupiter’s stratospheric winds for the first time—and they’re a doozy
NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSSAn international team of astronomers just measured Jupiter’s raging stratospheric winds for the very first time—and they used a 27-year-old comet to do it. Scientists …
Christopher Thomas Knight: The Controversial Tale Of The North Pond Hermit
While it’s already hard to fathom how a mystifying creature survived almost three decades living in the woods, the timeline of its strikingly unusual way …