Feb 24th, 2026 - WWSB ) - Marine units from the Venice Police Department and the Sarasota County Sheriff's Office responded over the weekend to a report of a manatee in distress in the Hatchett Creek area. Officers located an injured manatee showing signs of cold stress lesions and visible scarring along its tail, according to the Venice Police Department. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission biologists were notified and responded to assist, along with staff from Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium. With support from Sea Tow Venice, crews removed the manatee from the water. Mote Marine Laboratory ... [Read More]

Feb 23rd, 2026 - Most of the world's information is stored digitally right now. Every year, we generate more data than we did the year before. Now, with AI in the picture, a technology that relies on a whole lot of data, the amount of digital information we save is increasing exponentially.  The research arm of Microsoft has been working on a method for data storage that uses a laser to write inside glass. The researchers say that the information written in the glass will last for 10,000 years.  If this method can be scaled for commercial use, it could change how we store the world's information. ... [Read More]

Feb 23rd, 2026 - By A galaxy so faint it escaped detection for as long as anyone has been scanning the sky has finally been found. Called CDG-2, this newly identified "ghostly" galaxy may be one of the most dark matter-dominated galaxies ever discovered, with a staggering 99% of its total mass made up of dark matter — a mysterious substance that cannot be seen, touched, or felt. The Hubble Space Telescope, now more than three decades into its mission, played a key role in revealing this cosmic phantom. The research was led by David Li of the University of Toronto, and the findings were published in The ... [Read More]

Feb 23rd, 2026 - Follow Earth on Google For more than a century, Triceratops has been defined by what we can see – its horns, its frill, its massive beak. But the real surprise may lie in what we couldn't see at all. New CT scans reveal that this horned dinosaur rerouted the main nerves and blood vessels of its snout through its nose instead of its jaw. That unusual detour reshapes how scientists understand the oversized nasal cavity. Rather than a hollow chamber for smell alone, Triceratops ' nose may have functioned as an active system for cooling the brain and conserving water. Inside the dinosaur's ... [Read More]

Feb 23rd, 2026 - Follow Earth on Google Have you ever wondered if bed bugs are afraid of anything? These tiny blood-sucking insects cause stress in homes around the world. Once bed bugs enter a room, getting rid of them can feel almost impossible. But new research from the University of California Riverside has revealed something surprising. Bed bugs fear water. A recent study shows that moisture and wet surfaces make bed bugs quickly turn away. This discovery could help scientists and pest control companies better understand how to deal with infestations. Why bed bugs fear water The shape of a bed bug's ... [Read More]

Feb 23rd, 2026 - A renowned expert reveals the range of techniques and aesthetics of rock art, and what it tells us about human development Sometime in the summer of 1460, a traveller, Pierre de Montfort, found himself in the Alpine Vallée des Merveilles in south-east France. He was horrified. It was, he thought, "a hellish place with figures of devils and a thousand demons carved everywhere in the rocks". So aghast was he that he set his thoughts down, thereby leaving us the first written description of an encounter with rock art in European history. Rock art takes many forms, but the variety that De ... [Read More]

Feb 23rd, 2026 - Arrokoth hangs out around a billion miles out from Pluto. Deep within the Kuiper belt , some small worlds look like they were assembled from two mismatched snowballs pressed together. The poster child is Arrokoth , the "contact binary" visited in 2019 by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft . Its twin lobes share similar colors and volatile ices, and its surface shows relatively modest cratering. What still needed tightening was the how. Did Arrokoth start as two separate bodies that spent eons spiraling together under later nudges such as gas drag, orbital resonances, chance encounters, or did it ... [Read More]

Feb 23rd, 2026 - In November, scientists arrived at the South Pole in planes outfitted with skis to pull off a construction project seven years in the making. They had a short summer window — November to early February — to drill six new holes at least a mile and a half deep into the Antarctic ice and install long cables, beaded with hundreds of orb-shaped light detectors. This dense network of eyes is an upgrade to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory , a massive 15-year-old system made up of more than 5,000 sensors embedded in a gigaton of ice. [Read More]