Discoveries and Breakthroughs

1+ day, 19+ hour ago   (647+ words) Quirky stories from ScienceDaily's Plants & Animals section. Odd Creatures: Plants & Animals - RNA’s Tiny Clue to the Origin of Life Tuesday, September 1, 2026 - Scientists Discover Why Snake Embryos Twist Into Spirals Tuesday, August 25, 2026 Wednesday, August 19, 2026 - This 23-Foot Crocodylian May Have Ruled South…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (391+ words) Home » Society » DGM: Morocco Summer 2026 Ranks Eighth-Hottest Since 1981 Casablanca – Morocco experienced one of its warmest summers in recent decades in 2026, with average temperatures 1.07°C above the 1991–2020 reference period, according to data from Morocco’s General Directorate of Meteorology (DGM). The summer…...

6+ day, 35+ min ago   (465+ words) UCF students walk through Market Day in front of the student union on Wednesday afternoon. Students experienced the effects of high temperatures on campus while walking through the booths. Climate experts raise concerns about rising temperatures after the contiguous U.S. recorded…...

1+ week, 16+ hour ago   (336+ words) Paraguay experienced an exceptional weather event in the weekend of 26 and 27 September, with more than thirteen locations across the country breaking historic daily maximum temperature records. The country’s national weather service confirmed breaking the 74-year temperature record following the unprecedented…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (372+ words) Two new land snail species have been identified from northern Montenegro, which adds to the known diversity of the genus Cochlostoma. The two species, Cochlostoma dobrido and Cochlostoma komarnica, were discovered during citizen-science expeditions to Durmitor National Park and Komarnica…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (494+ words) Average daily summer temperatures in New Hampshire since record keeping began in the late 19th century. The trend has been toward hotter summers. The summer of 2026 was the seventh warmest in New Hampshire history, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric…...

2+ week, 10+ hour ago   (588+ words) Fewer than four months remain in 2026, and this year is on pace to be the hottest on record in the Continental United States. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the average temperature in the Lower 48 was 58.0°F between…...

2+ week, 14+ hour ago   (540+ words) Two newly identified snail species have expanded the known diversity of European land snails. The species, Cochlostoma komarnica and Cochlostoma dobrido, are described in a new study published in the open-access Biodiversity Data Journal. Neither species has an English common…...

2+ week, 23+ hour ago   (150+ words) Summer 2026, from June through August, was overthe- top hot in the Lower 48 states and Ouray as well. It was also the warmest summer “in 132 years of record-keeping.” (Ava Berger, “This summer was hot. August shattered global heat records,” Climate, NPR,…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (122+ words) Tunisia's summer this year was its hottest on record, the country's weather authority said Tuesday, following multiple heatwaves, water shortages and power cuts. "The summer of 2026 was ranked the hottest in Tunisia since 1950," the year temperature records began, the National…...