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Heavy rain may be driving tire pollution into Florida waterways | State
19+ hour, 33+ min ago (345+ words) Heavy rains flooded Key West in early June. A recent environmental study detected a toxic tire-derived chemical in Florida waterways. Florida International University scientists have detected a toxic tire-derived chemical in Florida waterways and developed a new testing method that…...
Study finds 70% of mice "mutating" to survive poison
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (382+ words) After reports from rodent control specialists that mice and rats seemed to be becoming more "stubborn," a study was launched to investigate what was happening. Now, researchers from Rutgers University have revealed that a huge 70% of mice and rats have…...
Heavy rain may be driving tire pollution into Florida waterways
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (345+ words) Heavy rains flooded Key West in early June. A recent environmental study detected a toxic tire-derived chemical in Florida waterways. Florida International University scientists have detected a toxic tire-derived chemical in Florida waterways and developed a new testing method that…...
Most detailed image of Milky Way shows over 60 million stars
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (240+ words) The European Space Agency's (ESA) Euclid mission revealed the visible-light image on Wednesday, June 24. ESA says this crowded region of our galaxy is the perfect place for astronomers to search for exoplanets with a technique called microlensing. This image shows…...
National park joins python hunt again
1+ day, 19+ hour ago (256+ words) Florida Python Challenge participants check in at an agent authorization station at the Ernest F. Coe Visitor Center in Everglades National Park in 2025, the first year the park joined the event. Invasive Burmese pythons prey on native wildlife and compete for…...
County offers guidance as sargassum impacts Florida Keys
1+ day, 19+ hour ago (398+ words) A tractor creates a pile of sargassum at South Beach recently. Monroe County is coordinating with state regulating agencies and local partners to publish guidance on the widespread influx of sargassum grass impacting ocean-side shorelines and canals throughout the Florida…...
Coastal 'coasters' help corals
1+ day, 19+ hour ago (128+ words) Sanctuary personnel recover and redeploy reef monitoring tiles. FLORIDA KEYS " What looks like a simple set of square coasters underwater is helping scientists measure the future of coral reefs in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. Recently, Mission: Iconic Reefs…...
Astronaut shows how to vacuum on the International Space Station | National
1+ day, 20+ hour ago (186+ words) An astronaut has shared their latest mission vacuuming a spacecraft 260 miles above Earth. European Space Agency astronaut Sophie Adenot demonstrated on Wednesday, June 24, how to do housekeeping on the International Space Station (ISS). The 43-year-old Frenchwoman revealed scenes that saw…...
155 million-year-old peanut-shaped asteroid captured wobbling in space
1+ week, 8+ hour ago (316+ words) The "oddball" asteroid is shaped like a peanut and wobbles in space. (NASA/Goddard/Sw RI/Johns Hopkins via SWNS) Scientists have revealed a peanut-shaped 155 million-year-old asteroid wobbles in space - and once held water. NASA's new findings from last year's…...
Fossilized babies of ancient predators show how life on Earth was like
1+ week, 18+ hour ago (986+ words) Fossil baby embolomere, showing that young embolomeres did not undergo a full amphibian-like metamorphosis. (Arjan Mann via SWNS) Fossilized babies of ancient crocodile-like predators have led to a "monumental" change in understanding of how animals first adapted to life on…...