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BENGALURU: India's first solar observatory, Aditya-L1, has captured a rare X-ray phenomenon during some of the most powerful solar eruptions ever recorded, giving scientists a new way to study where these explosive events originate high above the Sun's surface.

The sounds of birdsong are likely doing more than just marking the arrival of spring, as they could also reveal how healthy a farmland is. Scientists recorded over 2,000 hours of birdsong across 14 agricultural landscapes across the whole of Germany, following which they noticed that farms surrounded by forests, orchards and permanent grasslands consistently support a richer variety of bird species than landscapes dominated by large uniform crop fields.

A remarkable archaeological discovery in a cave on Norway's east coast has given scientists a rare glimpse into one of the country's oldest farming communities. Archaeologists uncovered the remains of a 4,000-year-old child near Bergen, a find that could help answer questions about where some of Norway's first agricultural settlers came from and what they may have looked like.

Black locust trees were once hailed as an ecological solution to some of Germany's most degraded lands and were planted extensively to stabilise the post-mining lands, enrich poor soil and capture carbon. These fast-growing plant species helped the country to transform its barren terrain into green cover.

Towering more than 70 meters above the ground, some of Malaysia's tallest tropical trees perform an extraordinary feat nearly every day: drawing water from their roots to the last leaf high above the canopy. Researchers once believed that giant trees are likely to be more vulnerable during droughts as gravity makes it more difficult to move water to such extreme heights.

More than 60 per cent of Canada's flying insects have disappeared from a single site over the last four decades, starting in the late 1970s, and the effects can be seen among the birds that rely upon them for sustenance, according to a newly peer-reviewed study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Tree swallows in Ontario's Long Point Bird Observatory are getting smaller and producing fewer offspring due to the decrease in insect numbers.

An unexpected environmental benefit has been observed as a result of the construction of a floating solar plant in the Netherlands. Although the plant was developed with a view to producing renewable electricity, it has been found that hundreds of fish and about 2,000 invertebrates have made this floating solar power station their home.

Most people look at The Starry Night and see a moonlit village beneath a sky alive with swirling stars. Scientists looked at the same painting and saw something else entirely.

Scientists have identified something that may be even more uniquely Canadian than the beaver or moose: a genetically distinct western toad population found only in Canada. The discovery, made by researchers from the University of Ottawa, points to a rare and previously unrecognized group of toads living in the Canadian Rockies and raises fresh questions about conservation, biodiversity, and how much wildlife still remains to be fully understood.

NEW DELHI: Before a baby's first breath, life depends on an extraordinary organ that most people rarely think about - the placenta.