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The story of humpback whales is often told as one of nature's greatest recovery successes. After being hunted almost to extinction during the period of commercial whaling, populations have increased significantly thanks to protective measures enforced in recent decades.

For decades, northern pike were just another fish in Alaska's waters, but an illegally introduced population in Southcentral Alaska is now worrying scientists, and climate change may be part of the reason.

Four kilometres beneath the surface of the Atlantic Ocean, beyond the reach of sunlight and far from shipping lanes, lies a forgotten chapter of the nuclear age.

For decades, the Tasmanian tiger was portrayed as Australia's most feared livestock predator. Farmers blamed it for dead sheep, newspapers described it as a menace to agriculture, and the Tasmanian government eventually paid cash rewards for its destruction.

The microscopic yeast that could survive in association with a 5,300-year-old body feels unlikely, almost speculative. Yet the frozen remains of Otzi, the Copper Age "Iceman" preserved in the Alps and housed in a controlled museum chamber in northern Italy, have provided scientists with an unexpected testing ground for that possibility.

BENGALURU: More than a century of observations from India's historic Kodaikanal Solar Observatory, operated by the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), Bengaluru, has helped scientists uncover new clues about how the Sun's surface responds to its 11-year activity cycle.

BENGALURU: Scientists in Bengaluru have discovered that a catalyst used to produce green hydrogen does something unexpected while on the job: it changes itself.

An ancient Chinese medicinal root is attracting scientific interest after researchers found that it may influence several pathways linked to hair growth.

Scientists at the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago have published a comprehensive review of one of the most ambitious frontiers in technology: stretchable neuromorphic electronics devices that are simultaneously soft enough to conform to human tissue, powerful enough to run artificial intelligence, and designed to learn and adapt in ways that mimic the biological brain. The review, published in the International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing, maps the current state of a field that is trying to solve a fundamental mismatch between human biology and modern computing hardware.