Europe's commercial space ambitions finally broke through the atmosphere—and it happened north of the Arctic Circle.
A controversial rewilding experiment on a remote Lake Superior island appears to be working, with wolves breeding successfully and population models now projecting long-term survival.
The bus-sized infrared observatory that launched on August 30, 2026 is named for the astronomer who, in 1959, became NASA's first chief of astronomy and spent two decades assembling the plans that became Hubble, Chandra, Spitzer, and Compton.
Every summer evening, hundreds of thousands of Brazilian free-tailed bats spiral out of Carlsbad Cavern and climb thousands of feet into the desert sky to intercept corn earworm moths bound for cotton and sorghum fields across the southern Plains — a functioning pest-control system that saves farmers hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.
Winter-flooded rice fields on California's Yolo Bypass produce 53 to 150 times more zooplankton than the leveed Sacramento River, and juvenile Chinook salmon released into them grow two to five times faster than fry stuck in the main channel — the finding now driving a program to release two million hatchery fry a year onto working farmland.
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