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The Amazon Fungus That Eats Plastic, and What It Can and Can’t Actually Do

Deep in the rainforests of Ecuador, tucked inside the stems of ordinary plants, scientists found something that behaves in a way most living things simply do not. It treats plastic as food. Not as a surface to grow on, not as something to slowly weather away, but as an actual meal, a source of energy…
Lake Powell Nears Critically Low Levels and ‘Dead Power Pool,’ Experts Warn

A reservoir can still look enormous while coming dangerously close to losing one of its most important functions. Lake Powell now sits only about 34 feet above the point where Glen Canyon Dam can no longer generate hydropower, following a record-low snowpack and decades of strain across the Colorado River Basin. Falling water levels threaten…
A Mom of Four Dialed 911 to Report Herself. The Reason Left Responders Speechless

For most people, calling 911 is something they hope they never have to do. The number is reserved for house fires, violent crimes, serious accidents, or life-threatening medical emergencies. But on the evening of July 31, one Utah mother reached for her phone because she had run out of options. She wasn’t witnessing an emergency…
A 13-Year-Old Dove Beneath a Dock to Save a Drowning Boy He Had Never Met

The docks at Silver Lake were crowded with kids that afternoon, running and leaping into the water, throwing belly flops, doing what children do on a warm summer day. Gauge Bryant, 13, had come to the lake near Everett to swim and meet up with a friend. It was supposed to be an ordinary trip,…
Scientists Discover Water May Have Two Hidden Forms

Water seems so ordinary that most of us rarely give it a second thought. It fills our oceans, falls from the sky, flows through our bodies, and supports every known form of life on Earth. Yet despite centuries of scientific research, this familiar liquid continues to surprise researchers in ways few people would expect. Now,…






