Ecoticias

Ireland seized a ship smuggling 32 million cigarettes and could not sell it or scrap it, so it ended up as the country’s first artificial reef, and fish have already moved in

Artificial reef: the MV Shingle, seized by Ireland in 2014 with 32 million smuggled cigarettes, was sunk in Killala Bay in ...
Ecoticias

A lava world where a year lasts just 23 hours seems to be holding on to an atmosphere, and the clue that gave it away is heat astronomers expected to find bu…

Lava world HD 3167 b circles its star in 23 hours, yet Webb data suggest it keeps an atmosphere that holds its dayside near 1 ...
Ecoticias

Human cartilage holds only about a third of the cushioning molecules found in chimpanzees and gorillas, and scientists now think our bad knees may be a price w…

Human cartilage holds about one-third of the cushioning GAGs found in other great apes, a Nature study finds, hinting at why ...
Ecoticias

Thanksgiving food waste reached an estimated 320 million pounds in 2025, according to ReFED, and turkey made up 40 percent of it, while USDA guidance gives leftover…

Thanksgiving food waste hit about 320 million pounds, worth $550 million, in 2025, ReFED estimates. Turkey was 40 percent.
Ecoticias

Archaeologists finally found graves at Göbekli Tepe after decades of digging, and they suggest many of the 928 human bone fragments scattered among its giant pill…

Göbekli Tepe's first two intact graves, about 10,500 years old, suggest many of 928 scattered human bone fragments slid ...
Ecoticias

The James Webb Space Telescope traced the WASP-17b atmosphere 1,300 light-years away, and the giant planet’s outline is not the perfect circle that models had a…

WASP-17b atmosphere mapped by Webb 1,300 light-years away: the evening edge, near 2,280°F, bulges out farther than the cooler ...
Ecoticias

Hidden for 600 years in a filled-in moat behind the Dutch parliament, a gold ring has resurfaced, and the Gothic letters set into its band spell out a single word about loy…

Gold ring found in a medieval moat behind the Binnenhof in The Hague is about 600 years old and its Gothic letters spell ...
Ecoticias

Psychology says suppressing thoughts doesn’t have to backfire the way a famous 1987 white bear experiment suggested, and a new study found the expected rebou…

Suppressing thoughts may not backfire: a 2026 retest of the 1987 white bear task found no rebound, and Bayesian analysis gave ...
Ecoticias

A crocodile fossil pulled from the same Egyptian limestone as the Great Sphinx spent nearly 100 years under the wrong name, and like the monument, it is missing the ti…

Crocodile fossil from the Sphinx's limestone, about 45 million years old, gets its own genus, Herugavialis, after CT scans of ...
Ecoticias

Botanists walking through Chernobyl cemeteries counted more than 400 plant species growing among the graves, and the giant oaks beside the crosses survived f…

Chernobyl cemeteries hold more than 400 wild plant species and oaks up to 14.6 feet around, spared by their sacred status ...
Ecoticias

Nicaragua’s Masaya volcano has not produced a major lava flow since 1772, and satellite radar now shows separate magma reservoirs beneath it behaving in opposit…

Masaya volcano in Nicaragua shows two magma reservoirs on Sentinel-1 radar: one deep pocket swelling since 2022, a shallow ...
Ecoticias

Saturn’s moon Enceladus sorts its own ocean into tiny ice grains that hit up to 620 mph, and scientists say that could make signs of life much easier to spot

Saturn's moon Enceladus sorts ocean salts into ice grains moving up to 620 mph, and a deep-sea microbe grew in a lab copy of ...