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Scientists studying microorganisms trapped in one of Europe's oldest underground glaciers have discovered a bacterium with remarkable survival abilities and unexpected medical potential. According to a study published in Frontiers in Microbiology titled First genome sequence and functional profiling of Psychrobacter SC65A.3 preserved in 5,000-year-old cave ice: insights into ancient resistome, antimicrobial potential, and enzymatic activities, researchers isolated a strain of Psychrobacter from a 5,000-year-old layer of ice in Romania's Scarisoara Ice Cave.

On a steep volcanic cliff on Chile's remote Robinson Crusoe Island, a single tree has become the last surviving wild representative of its species. Estimated to be around 150 years old, Dendroseris neriifolia grows from an almost inaccessible rock face, held in place with support ropes as conservationists carefully climb the cliff each year to collect its seeds.

A clumsy fall into an underground pool beneath an active US military base has led to the discovery of a strange, eyeless fish named after a TV series monster.

On most nights, streetlights are just background--small circles of brightness cutting through the dark. But for a tiny, overlooked group of creatures living close to the ground, those circles of light can become something far stranger: a kind of glowing trap that draws them into huge, synchronized "death spirals."

Simply cutting back aggressive climbing vines in logged tropical forests allows the tree canopy to recover three times faster than planting new trees, according to a long-term study in Malaysian Borneo.

Across the deserts of northern China, a quiet, repetitive movement has played out for nearly 50 years: People bending down, pressing long straw bundles into shifting sand, then planting tiny saplings in the empty squares they've created. It looks simple, almost ordinary.

Bees are among the world's most important pollinators, helping sustain ecosystems and supporting the production of many fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds. Yet bee populations have been declining for years due to habitat loss, pesticides, diseases, parasites and climate change.

Bees have a reputation for being tireless workers, but it turns out that reputation only really applies to some of them. Researchers at the University of Illinois glued tiny numbered tags onto thousands of individual honeybees and tracked their comings and goings for almost two months across several separate colonies.

Zoho's Sridhar Vembu questions the AI investment wave, asking whether AI could eventually become the only technology that truly matters.

A tiny GPS tracker attached to a European honey buzzard revealed an extraordinary feat of endurance that few humans could match. Over 42 days, the bird travelled more than 10,000 km from its wintering grounds in South Africa to its breeding habitat in Finland, crossing deserts, mountain ranges and numerous countries along the way.