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EdmontonBiologists are revisiting Lac La Biche's shoreline a decade after a previous assessment to track changes in development and environmental conditions. Biologists revisit the shoreline to see how development and environmental changes have affected the lakeJessica Campbell · CBC News · Posted: Oct 01, 2026 7:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: October 1Listen to this articleEstimated 4 minutesThe audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. A section of Lac La Biche's shoreline which is being studied by Masse Environmental as part of a shoreline study. They are looking at how much development is on the shoreline and how much of the area is undeveloped as one part of the research. (Jessica Campbell/CBC)From a boat on Lac La Biche, a team of biologists is getting a closer look at what has changed along the lake's shoreline over the past decade. Masse Environmental was contracted by Living Lakes Canada, a community-based water-monitoring nonprofit, to repeat a study first conducted 10 years ago.

The author said he was unhappy with the medical care he was getting at home, so he used his airline miles to book a business class ticket to Turkey for care and cosmetic procedures. Traveling to Turkey for medical care now has several humorous taglines and associations: men traveling for hair transplants on "Turkish Hairlines," veneers dubbed "Turkey Teeth," and tourists walking around Istanbul looking as if they got in a back-alley brawl from post-surgery swelling. This isn't a niche market or recent trend. Millions of Americans venture internationally each year for medical or cosmetic procedures, and the market continues to grow. My interest in medical tourism began after I wrote for a travel-focused website about a viral TikTok influencer who praised the quality and affordability of medical care in Turkey. Months later, after an extremely disappointing annual physical at home in South Florida, I was compelled to seek medical care abroad. I originally planned to only get a comprehensive physical and enjoy Istanbul. After further research and some cosmetic care, I decided to indulge in a full-body reset this past April.

With 302 neurons, 200 of them in their heads, hermaphrodite female roundworms reveal surprising sex-specific differences in the nervous system and how these differences influence behavior, reproduction, and aging. Researchers at Northeastern University compared brain activity in male and hermaphroditic Caenorhabditis elegans, a microscopic worm widely used in biological research to understand how sex wires males and female nervous systems differently.

Artist’s concept of the new dinosaur species Invictibellatrix amberina, along with the fossil from which it was identified. The fossil had been sitting in a drawer for 100 years, until researchers pulled it out and became curious. Image via Sergey Krasovskiy and Pedro Salas/ Natural History Museum London. You deserve a daily dose of good news. For the latest in science and the night sky, subscribe to EarthSky’s free daily newsletter.

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have captured a new view of NGC 1827, an intermediate spiral galaxy seen edge-on in the constellation Columba. This Hubble image shows the edge-on, intermediate spiral galaxy NGC 1827. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Michael Jones, California Institute of Technology / Gladys Kober, NASA / Catholic University of America.