Science bytes

Just weeks after the discovery of the Tilcayo cat (Leopardus tilcayo) in Bolivia, scientists have now identified the southeastern gentoo penguin (Pygoscelis kerguelensis) as a new species. www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/ar...

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First new cat discovered in 100 years. www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...

Humanoid robots olympics. Breaking human records 1 by 1.

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Tasmanian devil

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The termite king is one of the few male insects that stays with one mate for life. Once he and the queen start a colony they seal themselves in and he never leaves. For up to 20 years he stays by her side as the colony grows into millions. No fighting, no territory just quiet constant partnership.

He let insects sting him over 1,000 times… on purpose Why? To help science understand pain. His work became the famous “Sting Pain Index”, ranking how intense different insect stings really are. Unusual, yes. But undeniably impactful.

In 1812, Dr. James Barry graduated in medicine and became a British Army surgeon. After Barry’s death, it was discovered Barry had been assigned female at birth, at a time when women were banned from medical school.

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For the first time ever, researchers have recorded rat hunting bats

How baby whales drink milk underwater

One of Africa’s last remaining “super tusker” elephants died at the age of 54 in January 2026 at Amboseli National Park, Kenya.

Huge step forward’ for Huntington’s, the scientist behind the first gene therapy www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Scientists have found that soybean oil, the most common cooking oil in the U.S. and a staple in processed food, may act as a HIDDEN OBESITY TRIGGER in mice by rewiring how the body handles fat. Time to rethink what is in our food!! www.jlr.org/article/S002...

Huge news! Yoshua Bengio the “Godfather of AI” just became the first scholar ever to hit 1 million citations on Google Scholar! His work in deep learning has shaped everything from ChatGPT to self-driving cars.

James D. Watson, Nobel laureate and co-discoverer of DNA’s double helix, has died at 97. His scientific achievements are undeniable but his legacy is marred by repeated racist and sexist statements that perpetuated harmful stereotypes in science. A reminder that brilliance does not excuse bigotry.

The world’s first known leucistic Iberian lynx, pure white and magnificent has been sighted in southern Spain.

It’s official: the Slender-billed Curlew is extinct. Once a graceful migrant across continents, officially declared extinct by the IUCN. A haunting reminder that the extinction crisis isn’t distant-it’s happening now. credit:CMS

After years of sniffing out tuberculosis in Africa, Caroline, an African giant pouched rat (Cricetomys ansorgei), officially retired in March. Her incredible nose helped detect thousands of TB cases missed by conventional methods and she did it much faster than lab technicians.

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Only one person in history has won both Physics & Chemistry Nobels. Her name was Marie Curie. Her discoveries of polonium and radium transformed science and medicine forever.