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In January and February 2023, waves along a stretch of San Diego coastline briefly turned a striking shade of fuchsia, the result of a deliberate scientific experiment rather than any natural phenomenon. Researchers from UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the University of Washington released a bright pink, non-toxic dye into Los Penasquitos Lagoon, a small tidal estuary within Torrey Pines State Beach and Natural Reserve, to study something surprisingly understudied in ocean science: how small-scale freshwater plumes behave once they reach the breaking surf zone along the coast.

In a remote patch of Colorado's Gunnison National Forest, four miles from the nearest ploughed road, a man known simply as Billy Barr has spent 52 consecutive winters recording daily snowfall, temperature and weather observations from his off-grid cabin at roughly 9,600 feet. Barr first began jotting down snow measurements in 1974, shortly after graduating from Rutgers University with a degree in environmental science, initially just to keep himself occupied through the long, isolated winters near Gothic, a former silver mining town now home to the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory.

Scientists have discovered a new monkey species in the Congo rainforest, a small black colobus with striking orange lips called Likweli. Known as Colobus congoensis, it is only the fifth new monkey found in Africa in 75 years.

Two scientists can stumble into the same unplanned accident in the lab and walk away from it completely differently. One sees a ruined experiment, discards it, and starts again from scratch.

It is a known fact that humans have evolved from their ape ancestors. From crawling to walking we have come a long way and it seems that they are following suit, delving into the world of AI.

Harlequin frogs(Atelopus) are unique amphibians facing a threat to their survival, with approximately 81% of them in decline and 56% possibly extinct, as per the review published on Science direct. These small, coloured creatures are famous for their toxic skin, which act as a protection from predators.

The glacier on Mount Ararat, Turkey's highest mountain, has been surveyed for the first time as scientists race to study its shrinking ice before more.

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Prior to 1945, nuclear weapons were just an idea that could be discussed in theoretical physics literature. This changed when J.

For more than a century, avocado growers have known that not all avocado trees flower in the same way. Some trees produce flowers that function as females in the morning before becoming males the following afternoon, while others follow the opposite schedule.