Outer Venus flytrap walls lose roughly 30 to 40 percent stiffness in about one second, a Science study finds, leaving the molecular switch unsolved.
A San Antonio suburb yielded a wild grue jay hybrid, the green-blue cross a 1981 zoo paper said not to expect in nature.
Lightning on Oak Mesa emptied 74 addresses above Hotchkiss and sat on the town watershed before crews held the Leroux Fire to 195 acres.
The Elkhorn Fire started at a Durango construction house in July 2025, burned 298 acres for about $5 million, and still has no named cause.
The Cottonwood Flat Fire closed Highway 6 and melted a FlexSteel gas line above Rulison, 21 days after the Hilltop Fire hit the same county road.
Three cartographers designed Equal Earth in 2018 so schools would drop Gall-Peters. A 164-1 UN vote now backs equal-area maps, while phones still run Mercator.