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Biologists drove 19 burrowing owls evicted by a Phoenix housing project 50 miles into a 10,000-acre solar complex and lowered them into 40 plastic burrows — every female laid eggs within a month, and 29 chicks fledged the first summer, because open ground under panels hides no predator from an owl
7+ hour, 41+ min ago (304+ words) A solar farm designed to fight climate change became an unexpected refuge for an endangered owl when scientists discovered that panels cast the perfect shadow for ground-nesting predators to hunt. By Science Blog Editorial Team · Edited by Brendan Brown Published…...
Paper bags and cardboard boxes normally headed for the trash were carbonized into anodes for lithium-ion batteries, and the resulting electrodes survived 1,200 charge cycles — roughly twice the durability of anodes used in current phone batteries
20+ hour, 37+ min ago (441+ words) By Science Blog Editorial Team Published September 12, 2026 · How we edit A paper bag that carried someone’s lunch on Tuesday has a plausible future inside a phone. Researchers at NTU Singapore have worked out how to bake kraft paper, the brown…...
In the late 1990s San Miguel Island held 15 foxes, down from about 450; after 44 golden eagles were relocated and 226 captive-bred foxes returned, the island counted roughly 322 in 2024
23+ hour, 43+ min ago (388+ words) Fifteen foxes. That was the count on San Miguel Island at the end of the 1990s, on an island that had carried about 450 of them, a population so small that biologists could have known every animal by name and very nearly…...
From 1999 to 2006 crews moved 44 golden eagles off the Channel Islands and cleared more than 5,000 feral pigs from Santa Cruz; that island's fox count rose from 55 to 3,086 by 2024
23+ hour, 54+ min ago (323+ words) What looked like a conservation dead end became the fastest mammal recovery ever recorded—all by removing the predators and competitors that nearly erased an island fox from existence. By Lab Report · Edited by Justin Brown Published September 12, 2026 · How we…...
The world could have accumulated 78 million tons of retired solar panels by 2050. A team in South Korea pulled the silicon out of end-of-life panels, purified it to 99.95 percent, and cooked it into silicon nitride, the hard ceramic used in bearings.
2+ day, 5+ hour ago (795+ words) As solar waste threatens to become a massive problem, one discovery reveals the difference between disposal and profit. By Lab Report · Edited by Mal James Published September 11, 2026 · How we edit Solar panels do not last forever. Most are built to…...
Researchers counting sheep under American solar farms as of October 2024 found 113,050 animals already grazing 129,261 acres on 506 sites across 30 states, a pasture the industry had estimated at 15,000 acres only three years earlier
2+ week, 4+ day ago (167+ words) Nobody actually knew how many sheep were working America's solar farms. There were anecdotes, a trade association, a scattering of local news stories about flocks moving into panel rows from New York to Texas. Published August 25, 2026 · How we edit A…...
Engineers bolted ultrasonic speakers to turbines at a Pennsylvania wind farm and searched the ground beneath them every day for two summers, and the broadcasting turbines killed up to half as many bats, because a bat avoids air it cannot listen through
2+ week, 6+ day ago (347+ words) A simple tweak to wind turbines—making them audibly hostile to bats—cut fatalities roughly in half, suggesting a low-cost way to protect a species decimated by the renewable energy boom. Published August 24, 2026 · How we edit The experiment ran on the…...
Texas ranchers now run sheep across roughly 68,000 acres of solar farms, more than half the American solar-grazing map, because goats climb the panels and chew the wires and cattle are simply too tall for the rows
3+ week, 7+ hour ago (548+ words) While solar farms must stay weed-free to function, the animals that do that job matter enormously—and sheep have won out over goats, cattle, and every other contender. Published August 23, 2026 · How we edit Drive through Milam County, Texas, past the…...
The Sun’s outer atmosphere is roughly 200 times hotter than its visible surface — millions of degrees against about 10,000°F — and scientists are still trying to explain a paradox whose origins trace back to observations made in 1939.
4+ week, 18+ hour ago (1172+ words) The million-degree corona is hundreds of times hotter than the visible surface. Waves and reconnection explain parts of the energy transfer, but not yet all of it. By Lachlan Brown · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published August 15, 2026 · How we edit The…...
In 1859 the Carrington storm shocked telegraph operators and pushed auroras to Cuba; a repeat today could disrupt grids, satellites, radio and navigation, but it would not simply switch off every electronic device
1+ mon, 1+ day ago (1056+ words) A century-plus geomagnetic storm would cripple modern infrastructure in ways both spectacular and selective, leaving some systems intact while paralyzing others we depend on most. By The Long View · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published August 11, 2026 · How we edit On September…...