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Scientists explain how floods can be prevented in Assam, from healing stripped hills to trapping sediment, restoring wetlands and mending a cross-border warning system. But they warn that no fix survives the continued mining and deforestation of the catchment.

A mosquito does not need to die for its role in malaria transmission to be interrupted. That idea sits at the centre of a 2025 study led by researchers associated with Harvard T.H.

On a warm day, a wall is usually something to escape from rather than something that helps cool a room. At Graz University of Technology in Austria, that assumption is being turned around with a ceramic structure that uses little more than water, porous clay and evaporation.

Every winter, more than 100,000 giant Australian cuttlefish can be found mating along the rocky coastline of Point Lowly, northeast of Whyalla, South Australia. They put on shape-shifting, colourful displays in their attempts to attract a mate.

For generations, prairie dogs were often treated as a problem rather than an ecological asset. Their burrows were blamed for competing with livestock, while their colonies were targeted through shooting and poisoning across large parts of their former range.

Learning something from a finished textbook can give us a clear answer, but it does not always show us how that answer came to be. James Clerk Maxwell believed that students could gain something deeper by returning to the original work of the scientists who first developed an idea.

When scientists have a will, there is always a way. In a shocking yet successful project, leftover hair from haircuts that is not suitable for wigs and would have gone to waste is now being used to prevent oil and other pollutants from getting into the water and the trees.

Researchers in Queensland fitted five Australian magpies with tiny GPS trackers, hoping to map their movements and understand how age, sex or rank affected the way the flock behaved. The birds had other plans.

The 2026 Assam floods drowned Sivasagar and Charaideo after ordinary rainfall, not a cloudburst. Scientists say that deforestation, mining and silted rivers pushed the land past a tipping point.

Scientists have described a newly discovered lizard species from Thailand as Acanthosaura syrax, after the dragon linked to Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen in House of the Dragon. The find underlines both the animal's distinct traits and the need to protect Mae Wong's high-elevation forests.