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Jessica Hodge

Jurassic Park, But Make It Real?

A team (with Peter Jackson’s backing!) is working to bring back the moa, a 12-foot-tall, 500-pound bird that’s been extinct for 600 years. This gentle giant was sacred to the Maori people in New Zealand, and now scientists want to revive it using some wild genetic tech. If it works, these birds could actually start their own flocks again—no sci-fi movie required. Imagine running into one of these in the wild! #Science #MoaRevival #ScienceNews

Melvin Mosley

Rare Bat Spotted After 10 Years!

A grey long-eared bat just made a surprise comeback in Devon’s Seaton Wetlands after being MIA for over a decade! With fewer than 1,000 left in the UK, this sighting is a big win for local conservation. Thanks to habitat protection, beavers and even weasels are also returning. Experts say these rare bats are like nature’s health check—if they’re thriving, the whole ecosystem is on the up. Would you want to see more wildlife rewilding near you? #Science #WildlifeWin #Conservation

Tamara Jones

Earth’s Wildest Scar: Meteor Crater Secrets

Imagine a mile-wide crater in Arizona that’s basically a real-life time capsule from the Ice Age. Barringer Crater (aka Meteor Crater) was blasted out in seconds by a space rock 50,000 years ago—so powerful it vaporized itself! It’s the most intact impact crater on Earth, so well-preserved that NASA trained Apollo astronauts there. The wildest part? The original meteorite is almost totally gone, leaving only tiny fragments. Standing on the rim feels like staring into Earth’s cosmic past! #Science #SpaceHistory #MeteorCrater

megangibson

Whale Sighting in Brooklyn?!

A humpback whale was literally chilling by the Brooklyn shoreline—yes, you read that right! Chris from Gotham Whale snapped a pic of the big guy, who was just grabbing a snack on some small fish. Experts say more whales are showing up in NYC waters because the harbor is the cleanest it’s been in 150 years. Nature is making a comeback in the city! #Science #NYCWildlife #HumpbackWhale

Michelle York

You Have to See 'The Beast' on the Sun

A massive plasma plume—nicknamed 'The Beast'—just showed up on the sun, stretching 13 times wider than Earth! It looked like a giant animal crawling across the sun’s surface and had space fans snapping wild pics from all over the world. The best part? It rained blobs of fire back onto the sun, but thankfully, no solar storms were flung our way. Solar drama at its finest! #Science #TheBeast #SolarProminence

Jessica Hodge

Caught: Planets Being Born in Real Time!

Astronomers just snapped the first-ever pic of rocky planets forming around a baby sun outside our solar system—basically, we’re seeing new worlds come to life! Using NASA’s Webb Telescope and a Chilean observatory, scientists spotted the exact moment solid specks started clumping together, just like Earth did billions of years ago. This could mean planet-making is way more common than we thought. Imagine watching a solar system’s origin story unfold 1,370 light-years away! #Science #SpaceNews #Astronomy

Richard Vaughan

Fire Ants Turn Into Floating Rafts?!

You won’t believe what’s drifting on Lake Travis—giant living rafts made entirely of fire ants! When their nests flood, these ants literally link up, bite each other, and float away as a massive, wriggling island. Not only do they survive, but they can still sting if you get too close. Only fire ants pull off this wild survival trick, and researchers are obsessed with how they do it. Nature is seriously next-level! #Science #Austin #FireAnts

Richard Vaughan

Universe’s Big Secret: Matter vs. Antimatter

Ever wondered why the universe didn’t just wipe itself out after the big bang? Scientists at CERN just found a tiny but crucial difference in how matter and antimatter decay—specifically in particles called baryons. This could be the missing clue to why we exist at all! It’s the first time this kind of difference has been spotted in the stuff that makes up most of the universe. Could this finally lead us to the secrets of the cosmos? #Science #ScienceNews #BigBang

Patrick Simmons

Forgotten Fusion Experiment Resurfaces!

Imagine digging up a 1938 fusion experiment and realizing it could totally change what we know about nuclear energy! Los Alamos and Duke scientists just recreated Arthur Ruhlig’s old-school deuterium-tritium fusion test, and it turns out his hunches were spot on. Even though he overestimated some results, his work basically set the stage for everything from nuclear deterrence to clean energy. Wild how a dusty letter to the editor can still shake up science today! #Science #FusionEnergy #ScienceHistory