March 16, 2026
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Landmark offshore wind farms come online in the U.S.
Revolution Wind and Vineyard Wind are two of several wind farm projects that have come under fire from the Trump administration in recent months
Long before dinosaurs roamed the land, Earth looked very different from the planet we know today. Around 500 million years ago, most of Earth’s surface was bare rock and dry soil. There were no trees, no grass and no flowers. Life existed…
The Ryugu A0480 (11.9 mg) and C0370 (8.3 mg) aggregate samples were allocated through the Third Announcement of Opportunity (AO3) by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)…
an international team of astronomers has detected an extraordinary cosmic event that could redefine our understanding of black hole mergers. For the first time, a binary black hole merger, observed in November 2024, has been linked with a…
Fungi are truly weird and impressive—they can live anywhere, be poisonous or medicinal, and, reportedly, transform plastic waste into edible ingredients. And in more fungal news, some groups of fungi can literally foster the…
March 16, 2026
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Deadly campus meningitis outbreak in the U.K. kills 2, sickens many more
Tens of thousands of people in the U.K. may be impacted by the outbreak of this disease, which is largely preventable with…
March 16, 2026
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Brain implant allows people who are paralyzed to type using their thoughts at speed of texting
A brain-computer interface allowed two people who had lost the ability to move their limbs to type at…
A new analysis of samples collected from asteroid Ryugu has yielded all five canonical nucleobases that make up RNA and DNA.
It’s not the first time all five have been isolated from asteroid material – asteroid Bennu also made the grade….
