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Surveys of Zavodovski Island in the South Atlantic found about 402,000 breeding chinstraps in 2025, down from 1.09 million in 2011. The researchers think warming seas have moved the birds' food.
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Six researchers in the United States, Germany, France and Japan were honoured between 5 and 7 October. What each prize recognised, and why the committees thought it mattered.
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Arctic ice shrank to 4.60 million sq km on 12 September 2026 after an unusually cool, stormy summer. Scientists say the long decline has flattened for two decades, and they disagree about why.
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Leopardus tilcayo, smaller than a house cat, was identified from DNA rather than appearance. Researchers say it is the first living cat species formally described in more than a century.
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A case report in The Lancet describes the first person to move from a gene-edited pig kidney to a human donor organ. The pig kidney eventually failed, which matters for future trials.
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The observatory left Florida on a Falcon Heavy on 30 August 2026. Its camera sees an area at least 100 times larger than Hubble's, and fuel savings may let it work for two decades.
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