COP17 delivers fragile deal to boost conservation and funding for nature

Governments at the COP17 nature summit in Armenia agreed on Saturday to scale up their policies to protect the planet’s shrinking biodiversity, and for the first time invited large emerging…

Happy Halloween! SpaceX launches 27 Starlink satellites to orbit from California

Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter SpaceX celebrated Halloween with an early-morning launch from California. A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off…

Traces of Roman temple unearthed in Caraca

Archaeologists have discovered a Roman temple at the ancient city of Caraca in central Spain, confirming a structure first detected beneath the ground using geophysical surveys. The discovery comes during…

How Your Brain Saves Nostalgia From Scandals

Summary: When an admired artist is embroiled in scandal, how does the mind preserve its past love for their work? A study from the University of South Florida, published in…

Dietary Lecithin Linked to Lower Cognitive Impairment

Summary: A cross-sectional epidemiological and targeted lipidomics study of 1,917 community-dwelling older adults reveals that higher dietary intake of lecithin, a major source of phosphatidylcholine, is significantly associated with a…

Florida Department of Health considers dropping 4 school vaccine requirements – here’s what that could mean for kids

The Florida Department of Health held a hearing in October 2026 on a proposal to remove four vaccine requirements for entry into school and childcare: Haemophilus influenzae type b, or…

Patrick Stewart, renowned actor and ‘Star Trek’s’ Captain Picard, dies at 86

Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Less than a week after the fates took Walter Koenig from our galaxy, another “Star…

Oldest known Acheulean tools in Eastern Europe may date back 450,000 years

Stone handaxes, picks and cleavers discovered at a Lower Palaeolithic site in southern Russia may represent the oldest known Acheulean tool industry in Eastern Europe outside the Caucasus, according to…

Seabirds get jet lag, too — and it can throw them a bit off course

Jet lag isn’t just for travelers hurtling across time zones. Migratory birds may get it, too. Manx shearwaters (Puffinus puffinus) fly fast enough to experience jet lag, researchers report October…

COP reform is happening quietly, behind the headlines

In the thick of the COP29 climate summit in Azerbaijan in 2024, the UN climate talks were rattled by what can only be described as a major PR disaster. The…