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The Louisiana black bear, the animal associated with the origins of the teddy bear, was removed from the US federal list of endangered and threatened wildlife in 2016 after more than two decades of conservation work. When the bear received federal protection in 1992, habitat loss and human-related deaths had left its known breeding populations…

For decades, researchers have assumed that meaning could be distilled into three core emotional dimensions: valence, i.e. positive vs. negative; arousal, i.e. excited vs. calm; and dominance, i.e. controlling vs. submissive; collectively known as the VAD framework. Based on pioneering work in the 1950s by Charles Osgood and others, this model has been widely used…

Brine deposits beneath the Gofar fault in the eastern Pacific Ocean gave scientists a never-before-seen electromagnetic image of an oceanic transform fault in 2025, and the result was not what researchers expected. Extremely salty fluid appeared to be trapped under the seafloor on one side of the fault but not the other, pointing to a…

Image Credit: AI Generated Scientists studying plastic pollution in a New Zealand harbour discovered that microscopic plastic materials could change how coastal sediments responded to a storm. Researchers buried small pieces of polyester netting in the seabed and measured changes in oxygen consumption and nutrient fluxes before and after severe weather. Scientific Reports published results…

When conservation teams confirmed in 2018 that invasive house mice had been removed from Antipodes Island, it marked the end of one of New Zealand’s most ambitious island restoration efforts. The remote subantarctic island had carried mice for more than a century, and their appetite for insects, seeds, plants and occasionally bird eggs had quietly…

Stan sacrison found the t rex fossil with a T. rex representative image (BBC) As children watching dinosaur movies, we all became fascinated by the huge and mysterious creature. This fascination led the young and amateur fossil hunter Stan Sacrison to uncover one of the most well-preserved specimens of T.Rex ever found.Imagine walking across a…

Impact of sugar on the antibacterial course Craving while being unwell is real: the distaste of medicine, bitter pills and syrups. At that moment, we just want to eat something good. While the disease is already making us suffer, the restrictions on our diet make recovery almost not worth it anymore. And we end up…

A person suffering from Alzheimer’s (Image- Canva) Old age is a dreadful stage, with tiredness, pain and diseases always around the corner. One such uninvited guest is Alzheimer’s disease. But there’s something interesting that scientists have noticed in people with Alzheimer’s. Some people, even though they show clear signs of Alzheimer’s, never develop dementia. While…

“In a savage and ever-changing world, some will rise and some will fall. But through it all, the dinosaurs will expand their empire and advance relentlessly to seize Earth’s final frontiers,” narrated Morgan Freeman in the 2026 Netflix miniseries: The Dinosaurs. Nearly 66 million years ago, the Earth as we know it, was transformed, shrouded…

Mark Zuckerberg with his wife Priscilla Chan in 2014. Image Credit: Wikipedia Researchers at Biohub, an organisation backed by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative co-founded by Priscilla Chan, have identified potential new drug targets for psoriasis by combining AI with genetic screening. The study, published in Nature Communications, discovered 2 biological pathways that could help control…