​For 10 years, farmers across 13,500 hectares of southern England coordinated habitat work; one cluster recorded a 346% rise in corn buntings and a 183% rise in butterfly abundance over the decade

Recent Views 22 Since 1967, corn buntings have declined by 83% in the UK. But over the decade, the bird population around Martin Down, on the Hampshire-Dorset border, has risen by 346%.The red-listed bird is not the only one to benefit. Grey partridges in the same cluster are up 147%. Butterfly abundance has climbed 183%….

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‘Re-deployed to their home stations’: US withdraws all bombers from UK’s Fairford base after suspected terror plot

Recent Views 24 File photo: B‑1B Lancer bomber at the RAF Fairford airbase (Picture credit: Reuters) The United States has withdrawn all its bombers from RAF Fairford in England, a US-run military base that had been used to launch strikes on Iran, following an investigation into a suspected terror plot targeting the facility.The bombers have…

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Meet Ankith Burki, the Indian-origin San Jose seventh-grader who used low-frequency sound to boost an atmospheric water generator’s output by 117% and reached a national STEM final

Recent Views 21 Ankith BurkiPhoto: Society for Science For Ankith Burki, the global water crisis was not an abstract classroom topic but a challenge worth trying to solve. The seventh-grader from BASIS Independent Silicon Valley in San Jose designed an atmospheric water generator that pulls moisture from humid air, then tested whether sound could make…

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Meet Bailey Quinn Frank, the Fort Lauderdale eighth-grader who built a low-cost air sampler from small fans and filter paper to capture bacterial DNA and explore rural health surveillance

Recent Views 23 Bailey Quinn FrankPhoto credit: Society for science When Bailey Quinn Frank learned that scientists can identify species from genetic material left behind in the environment, she saw an opportunity to apply the same idea to public health. The eighth-grader from Pine Crest School in Fort Lauderdale designed a simple air sampler using…

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