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Light bulb that has burned since 1901 has outlasted three webcams watching it

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Winter bee clusters suffer most on the outside, not the center

A century of beekeeping wisdom may have misidentified which bees suffer most when winter comes—and blamed the wrong culprit for forcing them to huddle.

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Since 2008, the Dutch city of Heerlen has used water in its flooded former coal mines to heat and cool homes…

A Dutch city found an unexpected energy source 2,000 feet below the surface: the geothermal warmth trapped in flooded coal mines.

By Science Blog Editorial Team · Sep 25, 2026

Illinois rebranded invasive carp as "copi" to get Americans to eat it

A state's decades-long battle against an ecological crisis came down to one question: Could a rebrand and a chef's kiss make Americans hungry enough to save their waterways?

By Science Blog Editorial Team · Sep 25, 2026

The world's first webcam spent a decade watching a coffee pot in a Cambridge lab

A mundane appliance in a British computer lab inadvertently launched the entire ecosystem of remote visual surveillance that now defines modern life.

By Science Blog Editorial Team · Sep 24, 2026

Your taste buds completely replace themselves roughly every ten days

Your tongue's sensory workforce turns over almost entirely every ten days, meaning the cells tasting your food today will be strangers by next week.

By Science Blog Editorial Team · Sep 24, 2026

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