Happy Eco News Beekeeping as a Forest Conservation Strategy Reduces Human-Wildlife Conflict at Valmiki Tiger Reserve in India Beekeeping as a forest conservation strategy is creating real change at Valmiki Tiger Reserve in India, where 60 households now earn income from honey while reducing dangerous dependence on protected forest resources.
Scientists working to save a coral species from extinction transported 30 pieces from nurseries off the Florida coast to a hatchery on land Wednesday, fearing that warming waters could trigger a mass bleaching event this summer that could wipe them out.
Happy 55th Birthday to the amazing musician and singer Alison Krauss, who has won more Grammys than almost anyone. A teenage prodigy in Decatur, Illinois, she was attracted to bluegrass music and was winning contests at age 10—and at 16 showed off her extraordinary fiddle playing on a debut album with a major label. Her
For at least three years now, Silicon Valley and its global tech-futurist counterparts have been crafting a new vision for the future of RVing: long, sleek, luxurious glamping trailers that deliver their own motive power, sensor-based assistance and smart home conveniences. That vision invariably includes one other characteristic: a six-figure price tag. But the new T4 trailer from Southern California startup Aboard Mobility looks to squeeze all the high-tech convenience and glamping comfort into a much smaller base price. Whether Aboard is successful at doing so remains to be seen. Continue Reading Category: Camping Trailers , Adventure Vehicles , Outdoors Tags: Caravan , electric-camper , smart RV , trailers , Trailer , RV , Self-Driving , Outdoors and Camping , Glamping , Camping , PHEV
Researchers at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) have developed a new way to add large pieces of genetic information to plants, overcoming a challenge that has limited plant biotechnology for decades. The advance could help scientists build more complex traits into plants in the future, supporting research into areas such as crop resilience, sustainable agriculture, biotechnology and the use of plants as scalable platforms for producing therapeutics and biologics.
After a restoration, the Ripon Workhouse Museum reopened to the public, showcasing the sights, sounds and rules of England’s 19th-century “solution to poverty”
A major new study led by Swansea University has shown that upstream river management, rather than local rainfall, is the primary driver of one of the world's most important wetlands. According to the research published in Scientific Reports, which analyzed more than two decades of satellite observations, the future of Iraq's Mesopotamian Marshes depends far more on the water flowing from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers than on rainfall.
The first five years (2019–2024) of operations of The Ocean Cleanup's Automated Debris Imaging System (ADIS) have been reviewed, and the findings have been published in Environmental Research Communications. In addition to reviewing the technology's performance, the study covers the initial 14,500 km2 of global ocean surface scanned for plastic debris and the more than 20,000 large floating objects it helped identify.
The Seattle-based artist's quirky sculptures are made from from found figurines. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Debra Broz’s Kitschy ‘Superorganisms’ Are Both Familiar and Strange appeared first on Colossal .
The seafloor plays an important ecological and societal role. Understanding the processes that shape this environment will help guide conservation policy and decision-making about underwater infrastructure and geohazards.
Artist Gives Children in Hospitals Realistic Temporary Tattoos To Help Boost Their Confidence View this post on Instagram A post shared by Modern Archive (@modernarxhive) Many kids dream of getting their first tattoo, often counting down the days until they’re old enough. But New Zealand-based artist Benjamin Lloyd found a way to bring that experience to kids early with his realistic airbrushed tattoos made from non-toxic, […] READ: Artist Gives Children in Hospitals Realistic Temporary Tattoos To Help Boost Their Confidence
A man who was paralyzed from the chest down is now regaining hand and arm control thanks to a double neural bypass surgery—by using a computer to connect his brain with the nerves in his hand and arms. Hardly doomed to becoming a wheeled internet node for the rest of his life, the man has
Following its liftoff from Cape Canaveral on July 21 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, the Mission Robotic Vehicle (MRV) hosting the NASA-supported Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites (RSGS) payload is now en route to geosynchronous Earth orbit, where it will use its advanced robotics to service spacecraft. RSGS leverages in-space robotics expertise from NASA,
Antibiotics are a medical marvel, but many microbes are gaining the ability to resist and tolerate these therapeutics. St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists have uncovered how S. pneumoniae adapts to antibiotic exposure and immune pressures. Their findings reveal that changes in RNA regulation enable bacteria to enter a state of antibiotic tolerance. The results provide a deeper understanding of how pathogens survive treatment and could inform strategies to improve the effectiveness of existing antibiotics. The findings were published in Cell Host & Microbe.
The American chestnut tree was a dominant and iconic species in many Appalachian forests until it was devastated by an introduced fungus from Asia called chestnut blight.
The brothers puncture everyday objects with irregular yet cohesive holes, rendering their former functions impractical. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Saman and Sasan Oskouei’s Sculptures Puncture the Weight of Everyday Objects appeared first on Colossal .
Man Spends His Own Time and Money to Offer Illiterate Adults Free Literacy Lessons Vietnam boasts a high literacy rate, at 90.3% for adults and 94% for youths (15- to 24-year-olds). However, illiteracy still affects marginalized and remote communities, such as ethnic minority populations and older adults in mountainous areas. Hoping to turn this around, a police officer named Lê Tuấn Thành has taken on the unique side quest […] READ: Man Spends His Own Time and Money to Offer Illiterate Adults Free Literacy Lessons
The EU's food safety agency said Wednesday it has dramatically reduced the acceptable daily intake level of the so-called forever chemical TFA, following new evidence of its effect on a key hormone that regulates the body's metabolism.
According to United Nations projections, global food demand could increase by around 60% by 2050, while only about 2% of additional agricultural land is expected to become available. Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) are therefore exploring new approaches to safeguard food security.
Giant Pop-Up Book at Los Angeles Public Library Sets Guinness World Record @lapubliclibraryLuceros y Penumbras has just been officially recognized by Guinness World Records as the largest pop-up book ever created! Check out this record-breaking exhibition on your next visit to Central Library.♬ original sound – Los Angeles Public Library A giant pop-up book at the Los Angeles Public Library has officially been recognized by the Guinness […] READ: Giant Pop-Up Book at Los Angeles Public Library Sets Guinness World Record
Lee esta historia en español aquí. NASA’s Juno mission has provided the first measurements of the temperature below the surface of Jupiter’s moon Io, revealing significant heating within the shallow subsurface of the most volcanically active world in the solar system. Collected during two close flybys, the data also shows that most of Io’s surface is
Surreal Sculptures Visualize Human Greed as Soft Bodies Bloating Out of the Frame Multifaceted artist Vincent Lagrange spent more than two decades photographing animals with a sense of closeness that defined his acclaimed series Between Us. With Never Enough, he shifts that gaze inward, building sculptural forms that transform photography’s logic into physical space. The result is a body of work that confronts excess not as an abstract […] READ: Surreal Sculptures Visualize Human Greed as Soft Bodies Bloating Out of the Frame
NASA is supporting the Genesis Mission, a national effort to drive the use of artificial intelligence in tackling complex scientific and engineering challenges to advance a new era of discovery. President Donald J. Trump issued the Executive Order “Launching the Genesis Mission” on Nov. 24, 2025, creating a national mission to leverage artificial intelligence to