MrBeast and the Rockefeller Foundation are teaming up to spark youth philanthropy
24 November 2025 - One of the most storied American philanthropies is teaming up with the internet's biggest creator to instill young people with a concern for what they call the world's 'most vulnerable' populations. (more)

US: Wisconsin archaeologists identify 16 ancient canoes in a prehistoric lake 'parking lot'
19 November 2025 - Archaeologists have identified more than a dozen ancient canoes that Indigenous people apparently left behind in a sort of prehistoric parking lot along a Wisconsin lakeshore. ...Tamara Thomsen, the state's maritime archaeologist, said that the site lies near a network of what were once indigenous trails, suggesting ancient people left the canoes there for anyone to use as they traveled, much like a modern-day e-bike rack. (more)

France's birds start to show signs of recovery after bee-harming pesticide ban
18 November 2025 - Insect-eating bird populations in France appear to be making a tentative recovery after a ban on bee-harming pesticides, according to the first study to examine how wildlife is returning in Europe. (more)

Experts lead tours uncovering Mexico's hidden ancient sites
17 November 2025 - Amid the constant blare of car horns in southern Mexico City, it's hard to imagine that Cuicuilco was once the heart of a thriving ancient civilization. Yet atop its circular pyramid, now surrounded by buildings and a shopping center, a pre-Hispanic fire god was revered. ...Cuicuilco means 'the place where songs and dances are made' in the Nahua language. (more)

This Tunisian startup has an answer to expensive EV charging: solar rays
16 November 2025 - Every type of EV charging comes with a price tag, but North African startup Bako Motors has a pretty simple workaround: just let cars charge themselves. Bako's ultra-compact cars and fun-sized cargo vans actually have solar panels on the top. ...With most EVs across the continent still depending on electricity from the power grid, Bako Motors hopes to rewrite that equation by tapping into one of the region's most abundant resources: sunshine. (more)

Zanzibar's 'solar mamas' are trained as technicians to help light up communities
13 November 2025 - Tatu Omary Hamad is one of dozens of 'solar mamas' trained in Zanzibar by Barefoot College International, a global nonprofit, through a program that brings light to rural communities and provides jobs for local women. So far in Zanzibar, it has lit 1,845 homes. (more)

The 'Seven Sisters' just found thousands of long-lost siblings
12 November 2025 - Astronomers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have discovered that the famous Pleiades star cluster, the 'Seven Sisters' often spotted on winter nights, is just the bright tip of a much larger stellar family. By combining data from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope, the team uncovered thousands of hidden siblings spread across the sky, a sprawling structure they call the Greater Pleiades Complex. The discovery shows the Pleiades is 20 times larger than previously thought. (more)

The Seven Sisters star cluster is 20 times larger than we thought
12 November 2025 - For as long as humans have looked up, the Pleiades, also known as the Seven Sisters, have stood out - a compact cluster of blue-white stars that seems small to the eye but hides a vast galactic family. Astronomers have traced that family outward, uncovering thousands of long-lost siblings and redefining what we know of the Pleiades. (more)

Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity
7 November 2025 - Renewable energy overtook coal as the world's leading source of electricity in the first half of this year - a historic first, according to new data from the global energy think tank Ember. (more)

From St. Basil's to Bondi: the brilliant 'beaver' supermoon - in pictures
6 November 2025 - The largest supermoon of the year, the so-called 'beaver' moon is the biggest and brightest of 2025, just 357,000 km from Earth. (more)

See stunning photos of November's full 'Beaver Moon' -- the biggest supermoon of 2025
6 November 2025 - The November full moon put on a magnificent show for stargazers on Nov. 5, as the largest and brightest supermoon of 2025 flooded the sky with reflected sunlight mere hours before it reached its closest point to Earth in its 27-day orbit. ...Photographers around the world captured a treasure trove of magnificent lunar portraits as the disk of Earth's natural satellite climbed over the eastern horizon last night, rising close to ancient monuments and modern skyscrapers along with breathtaking natural landscapes. (more)

The Nobel Prize in medicine goes to 3 scientists for key immune system discoveries
2 November 2025 - Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday [6 October] for discoveries about how the immune system knows to attack germs and not our own bodies. ...Experts called the findings critical to understanding autoimmune diseases such as Type 1 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, and lupus. (more)

How to spot November's supermoon, the closest of the year
1 November 2025 - The moon will look slightly bigger and brighter Wednesday night during the closest supermoon of the year. (more)

Physicists detect rare 'second-generation' black holes that prove Einstein right . . . again
31 October 2025 - Physicists have analyzed two enormous black hole mergers that happened one month apart and have come up with tantalizing evidence that rare 'second-generation' black holes were involved. Scientists have found two pairs of merging black holes, and they think the larger one in each merger is a rare 'second-generation' veteran of a previous collision. (more)

US: Largest wildlife conservation easement in South Carolina announced, praised
30 October 2025 - The South Carolina Forestry Commission has announced the largest conservation easement in the state's history. ...The project, a collaboration with Resource Management Service and the Open Space Institute, aims to safeguard habitats and species along the Black, Pee Dee, and Santee rivers. (more)

US: Gov. McMaster, organizations celebrate largest conservation easement in South Carolina history
29 October 2025 - On Wednesday, various conservation organizations announced the largest conservation easement in state history. Officials said this will protect more than 62,000 acres of forestland across Georgetown, Marion, and Williamsburg counties. (more)

Music could help ease pain from surgery or illness. Scientists are listening
18 October 2025 - Over the past two decades, live performances and recorded music have flowed into hospitals and doctors' offices as research grows on how songs can help ease pain. (more)

JWST may have found the Universe's first stars powered by dark matter
14 October 2025 - Astronomers may have spotted the first evidence of 'supermassive dark stars' - ancient giants powered by dark matter instead of fusion. Their discovery could illuminate how the universe's first black holes and galaxies came to be. (more)

Wooden slats or rollers didn't transport Easter Island's Moai - the statues walked
10 October 2025 - People around the world are fascinated by how ancient civilizations managed to move massive weights for their iconic monuments without the modern technologies at our disposal today. One of them are the Rapa Nui people and how they transported their enormous moai statues (some weighing more than 80 tons) across the island. Now, using physics, 3D modeling, and hands-on experimentation, researchers have solidified what locals and legends have long said: the statues actually walked. (more)

Three scientists at US universities win Nobel Prize in physics for advancing quantum technology
7 October 2025 - Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for research on the strange behavior of subatomic particles called quantum tunneling that enabled the ultra-sensitive measurements achieved by MRI machines and laid the groundwork for better cellphones and faster computers. (more)

The first supermoon of the year is approaching. Here's what to know
5 October 2025 - The moon will appear slightly larger and brighter Monday night during what's known as a supermoon. October's supermoon is the first of three this year. It happens when a full moon is closer to Earth in its orbit. That makes the moon look up to 14 percent bigger and 30 percent brighter than the faintest moon of the year, according to NASA. ...Everyone in the world can see a supermoon without special equipment if clear skies permit. (more)

From rooftops to honey jars, Athens is abuzz with urban beekeeping
3 October 2025 - Dozens of Athenians have embraced urban beekeeping to support local ecosystems, reconnect with nature, and enjoy honey flavored by each neighborhood's local plants and flowers. (more)

A recipe for avoiding 15 million deaths a year and climate disaster is fixing food, scientists say
2 October 2025 - About 15 million deaths could be avoided each year and agricultural emissions could drop by 15 percent if people worldwide shift to healthier, predominantly plant-based diets, according to the EAT-Lancet Commission, which brought together scientists worldwide to review the latest data on food's role in human health, climate change, biodiversity, and people's working and living conditions. (more)

US: California's first solar-covered canal is now fully online
2 October 2025 - A novel solar power project just went online in California's Central Valley, with panels that span across canals in the vast agricultural region. The 1.6-megawatt installation, called Project Nexus, was fully completed late inn August. The $20 million state-funded pilot has turned stretches of the Turlock Irrigation District's canals into hubs of clean electricity generation in a remote area where cotton, tomatoes, almonds, and hundreds of other crops are grown. (more)