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Thirsty plants are sucking up water that would otherwise end up in the Colorado River, according to a new study. The findings could have important implications for water management in regions that rely heavily on snowmelt for their water,…

This overlooked organ may be more vital for longevity than scientists realized

An extremely rare “daytime fireball” meteor was recently spotted streaking across sunny blue skies over the eastern U.S. after a fridge-size space rock exploded and triggered a powerful sonic boom. The unusual event, which was also visible from…

Days after the United States and Israel launched airstrikes against Iran, killing Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps declared the Strait of Hormuz—the narrow waterway through which roughly one-fifth of the…

Artificial intelligence (AI) image generators are becoming more powerful, and they usually rely on heavyweight large language models (LLMs) running in the cloud. But researchers say they’ve built a new system that can generate high-quality…

Nebraska is battling its largest wildfires in history. Worse may be yet to come

By Claire Cameron

Massive underwater waves triggered by falling icebergs are playing a bigger role in Greenland’s ice loss than scientists once thought. These invisible movements, detected thanks to fiber-optic technology, keep warm water circulating…

As a landscape and wildlife photographer, when I’m not hiking mountains or chasing herds of deer in the wilds of Scotland, I love taking inspiration from nature documentaries.

I also travel a lot, and when abroad I find myself blocked out of my…