This newly identified species of glass frog (provisional name Nymphargus dajomesae) was found in the Cordillera del Cóndor mountain range in the Andes. (Photo archive PUCE-BIOWEB )

World’s largest sinkhole showcases the power and beauty of nature

Global gasoline prices in 2026 range from $0.09 to $15.65 per gallon, revealing stark disparities in fuel costs worldwide.

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Drops made from pig semen treat eye cancer Eye drops that contain drug-carrying molecules derived from pig semen can stop the growth of a retinal cancer in mice without affecting the animals’ vision.

Saturn in infrared, its rings glowing against the darkened sky. This composite image combines NIRCam exposures from the JWST, with an orange hue applied to grayscale data. NASA/ESA/CSA

Apparently bumblebees can breathe underwater. As if I didn’t have enough reasons to be impressed by these busy little pollinators!

Living on the edge. Twenty-five thousand residents of Niscemi, a town on the Italian island of Sicily, have been living precariously on the edge of a newly formed cliff.

Renascience Inc. is betting that targeting PAI-1 can tackle two of medicine’s biggest frontiers: cancer and aging. (Getty/Westend61)

All I can say is that I’m beginning to regret having lived so long—because we’re going downhill. —Stanley Plotkin, the ‘godfather of vaccines’ STAT | 2 March 2026 | Helen Branswell At 93, Plotkin laments declining U.S. vaccination rates in an interview with STAT.

‘The man who stole infinity’ A seminal 1874 paper by mathematician Georg Cantor that redefined infinity and revolutionized mathematics was a work of plagiarism, reveal long-lost letters.

In them, science journalist Demian Goos discovered fresh evidence that Cantor included, almost word-for-word, uncredited work by his collaborator Richard Dedekind.

Science is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity for our nation’s sovereignty and development. —Evens Emmanuel, Haiti National Agency for Higher Education and Scientific Research ScienceInsider | 26 February 2026 | Richard Stone

The judiciousness of stepping away from WHO and other multinational public health entities, rather than working to improve and supplement them, is likely to be tested by the next pandemic. Expert Voices | 19 February 2026 | Seth Berkley

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Six previously undiscovered, weird astrophysical objects found in the Hubble Space Telescope’s archive: three lenses with arcs distorted by gravity, one galactic merger, one ring galaxy and one galaxy that defies classification. (NASA, ESA, David O'Ryan ESA, Pablo Gómez ESA, Mahdi Zamani ESA/Hubble

The first species that Dudin’s lab imaged using expansion microscopy was the unicellular eukaryote Sphaeroforma arctica, a protist that has multiple nuclei in a single cell. This image shows cells at different stages of their life cycle.

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