Science

Photo credit: Liz Hamrick/TVA – A healthy bat hangs in a cave, resting up to eat its weight in bugs at dusk.

Environment, Science

How much is a bat worth? Protecting these tiny insect‑eaters isn’t just good for farms – their deaths cost taxpayers and the wider economy

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5/15/2026
Photo credit: francescoch/iStock via Getty Images Plus – Which route should you take? The familiar or the unknown?

Science

How does your brain decide between the road not taken or the same old route? Resolving conflicting memories is key to navigation

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5/13/2026
A pocket garden at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center in New Jersey.

Environment, Science

Pocket gardens: The tiny urban oases with surprisingly big benefits

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5/4/2026
Photo credit: Jacob Wackerhausen/iStock via Getty Images Plus – When you hear about some new research finding, consider how it fits into the context of other related studies.

Science, Technology

‘A study showed…’ isn’t enough – scientific knowledge builds incrementally as researchers investigate and revisit questions

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5/4/2026
Photo credit: Jake C/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA – Acid mine waste turns rocks orange along Shamokin Creek in Pennsylvania.

Environment, Science

America’s next big critical minerals source could be coal mine pollution – if we can agree on who owns it

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4/27/2026
Photo credit: Canva – A group of people hiking in the mountains.

Exploration, Science

Humans nearly vanished 800,000 years ago, revealing a quiet truth: most family lines disappear

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4/24/2026
Photo credit: Mickey Pullen/Smithsonian Environmental Research Center – A long-running experiment is testing tree mixes to develop the healthiest forests.

Environment, Science

Don’t just plant trees, plant forests to restore biodiversity for the future

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4/23/2026
Photo credit: Canva – (Left)Plastic pollution from the ocean and (Right) Moringa oleifera seeds.

Environment, Science

Plastic pollution in drinking water could be solved by a simple seed from a ‘Miracle Tree’

Mark Wales

4/21/2026
Photo credit: Zelalem Bedaso – Chemicals in your tooth enamel record evidence of your diet that can last millions of years.

Environment, Science

Ancient teeth reveal clues to the environment humans’ early ancestors evolved in millions of years ago

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4/21/2026
Photo credit: Sam Droege/USGS Bee Lab via Flickr – This wild ground bee, Andrena nothoscordi, is typically found in the U.S. Midwest and Southeast and loves false garlic flowers.

Environment, Science

It’s OK to love all the bees (the honey bees, too)

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4/21/2026

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