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North America's driest place turns into a sea of colors thanks to rare blooms: spectacular images from Death Valley

Mar 11, 2026 19:00

North America's driest and most inhospitable place has turned into a sea of colors. That's because Death Valley National Park in California is experiencing one of the most spectacular natural phenomena in recent years: an extremely rare 'superbloom', a massive bloom of wildflowers that covers the desert with carpets of yellow, purple and orange. According to the National Park Service, this is the most intense bloom in the past decade, a phenomenon that occurs, on average, only once every 10 years.

Earth's core isn't static, but changes shape (and scientists are beginning to understand why)

Mar 11, 2026 14:30

For years, we have imagined Earth's center as immobile: a compact, silent sphere hidden under thousands of miles of rock and molten metals. In textbooks, Earth's inner core is often described as a solid, stable mass, almost as if it had crystallized over time. A fixed point in a planet that on the surface, on the contrary, never stops changing.

Fukushima 15 years after disaster: 880 tons of radioactive debris still in reactors

Mar 11, 2026 08:00

The day Japan came to a standstill is March 11, 2011. At 2:46 p.m., the country was hit by the most powerful earthquake ever recorded: a magnitude 9 in the Pacific Ocean, off the northeast coast. Forty minutes later, the second wave of the tragedy followed. A tsunami with walls of water over 10 meters high - nearly 40 in some places - inundated coastal cities and infrastructure.

Dog detects tumor by smelling breath and saves owner: scientists now working on 'electronic nose' to detect cancer

Mar 11, 2026 06:30

In Kent, England, Inca, a German shepherd, did what no doctor had succeeded to do: by obsessively sniffing her owner Colleen Ferguson's breath, she pointed out a problem that no one knew how to diagnose. The woman, who did not smoke and showed no obvious symptoms, discovered a lung carcinoma the size of a golf ball, thanks to her dog's persistence.

Invisible pollution: cocaine found in 100% of freshwater prawns in English rivers

Mar 09, 2026 10:30

In the rivers of Suffolk, in the east of England, there's more than just clear water. A team of researchers from King's College London and the University of Suffolk have made a discovery that has left the scientific community speechless.

World Nature Day 2026: 3 sensory experiments to do with kids on the balcony

Mar 03, 2026 09:00

On March 3, 2026, the yearly calendar reminds us how important it is to celebrate World Nature Day. Yet in order to establish a real contact with the earth, you don't need to go on trips to remote forests or specially landscaped green spaces, because any balcony - even the tiniest one, even the one overlooking a busy street - can turn into the setting of a real scientific investigation.

Wild snake breaks all records: 'Baroness' measures over 7 metres

Mar 01, 2026 10:00

In the forests of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, researchers have measured the longest wild snake ever officially documented.

A dinosaur bigger than the T-Rex discovered in the Sahara

Feb 27, 2026 15:00

When we think of the great predators of Earth's history, our mind immediately turns to the Tyrannosaurus rex, a pop icon, a film and documentary star, the very embodiment of primordial force.

Electric hand dryers bad for children? A 9-year-old girl's astonishing discovery

Feb 24, 2026 11:30

The story comes to us from Canada and stars Nora Keegan, who was just 9 years old when she began to ask herself a very specific question: are air hand dryers bad for children's ears?

Extremely rare unicornfish found washed up on Mediterranean coast

Feb 24, 2026 08:30

On the beach of the Milazzo Tennis and Sailing Club, in the province of Messina (Italy), an unexpected guest has appeared, a creature that rarely shows itself.

North America's driest place turns into a sea of colors thanks to rare blooms: spectacular images from Death Valley

Earth's core isn't static, but changes shape (and scientists are beginning to understand why)

Fukushima 15 years after disaster: 880 tons of radioactive debris still in reactors

Dog detects tumor by smelling breath and saves owner: scientists now working on 'electronic nose' to detect cancer

Invisible pollution: cocaine found in 100% of freshwater prawns in English rivers

World Nature Day 2026: 3 sensory experiments to do with kids on the balcony

Wild snake breaks all records: 'Baroness' measures over 7 metres

A dinosaur bigger than the T-Rex discovered in the Sahara

Electric hand dryers bad for children? A 9-year-old girl's astonishing discovery

Extremely rare unicornfish found washed up on Mediterranean coast

Dog accidentally shoots woman at traffic light

Sweden and France argue over nicotine pouches: "As if we would ban French baguettes"

Outcry over lenient sentence for teenage rapists in Britain: 'You don't want a society where girls have to grow up like that'

Switzerland votes on population cap: 10 million and no more

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