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Biologists drove 19 burrowing owls evicted by a Phoenix housing project 50 miles into a 10,000-acre solar complex and lowered them into 40 plastic burrows — every female laid eggs within a month, and 29 chicks fledged the first summer, because open ground under panels hides no predator from an owl
11+ hour, 3+ min ago (304+ words) A solar farm designed to fight climate change became an unexpected refuge for an endangered owl when scientists discovered that panels cast the perfect shadow for ground-nesting predators to hunt. By Science Blog Editorial Team · Edited by Brendan Brown Published…...
Researchers heated egg yolk and leftover rice until it was a black powder full of tiny holes, then used it to store electricity. They charged it and drained it 10,000 times, and it still held 82.26 percent of what it did the first time.
4+ day, 11+ hour ago (515+ words) A humble kitchen waste might outlast the batteries powering your phone. By Lab Report · Edited by Mal James Published September 9, 2026 · How we edit Why would anyone cook egg yolk and old rice into a battery material? It sounds like a…...
Four hippos brought to Colombia in 1981 have multiplied into nearly 200 animals roaming the Magdalena River basin — the world’s largest invasive animal, spreading through warm rivers with abundant food and few natural checks
6+ day, 1+ hour ago (252+ words) Published September 7, 2026 · How we edit A sign beside a cattle pond in central Colombia warns visitors that the water belongs to the most dangerous animal on earth and that they should stay out of it. The sign is accurate. It…...
Scientists mapped beneath Utah’s Great Salt Lake and found a potentially vast reservoir of freshwater hiding under one of America’s saltiest lakes — in places, it extends more than three kilometres underground
1+ week, 3+ hour ago (473+ words) Reeds do not grow on salt flats. Yet dozens of near-perfect circles of them have shoved their way up through the crust of Farmington Bay, in the south-eastern corner of Utah's Great Salt Lake. Published September 6, 2026 · How we edit Reeds…...
Researchers counting sheep under American solar farms as of October 2024 found 113,050 animals already grazing 129,261 acres on 506 sites across 30 states, a pasture the industry had estimated at 15,000 acres only three years earlier
2+ week, 4+ day ago (167+ words) Nobody actually knew how many sheep were working America's solar farms. There were anecdotes, a trade association, a scattering of local news stories about flocks moving into panel rows from New York to Texas. Published August 25, 2026 · How we edit A…...
Osprey nests on American power poles can weigh 200 pounds and set the poles they sit on alight, and one burning nest in May cut power to 3,500 Cape Cod homes while sixth-graders sat a standardized exam in the dark down the road
2+ week, 6+ day ago (188+ words) When a conservation success story literally catches fire, the utilities caught in the middle have to choose between power and wildlife. Published August 24, 2026 · How we edit The osprey is one of American conservation’s proudest comebacks, a fish-hunting raptor with a…...
Engineers bolted ultrasonic speakers to turbines at a Pennsylvania wind farm and searched the ground beneath them every day for two summers, and the broadcasting turbines killed up to half as many bats, because a bat avoids air it cannot listen through
2+ week, 6+ day ago (347+ words) A simple tweak to wind turbines—making them audibly hostile to bats—cut fatalities roughly in half, suggesting a low-cost way to protect a species decimated by the renewable energy boom. Published August 24, 2026 · How we edit The experiment ran on the…...
Texas ranchers now run sheep across roughly 68,000 acres of solar farms, more than half the American solar-grazing map, because goats climb the panels and chew the wires and cattle are simply too tall for the rows
3+ week, 11+ hour ago (548+ words) While solar farms must stay weed-free to function, the animals that do that job matter enormously—and sheep have won out over goats, cattle, and every other contender. Published August 23, 2026 · How we edit Drive through Milam County, Texas, past the…...