Life
A three-millimetre jellyfish found in oceans worldwide can reverse its own life cycle when injured or starving, melting back into its…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 15, 2026
July 2026
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Space
The engineers who built Voyager knew they would almost certainly be dead before it left the solar system, and they built it anyway, a gift…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 15, 2026
Technology
A 1948 IBM computer with no memory at all, fed by punchcards and programmed by physically rewiring its panels, was still doing the…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 15, 2026
Life
A shark that lives in the freezing Arctic can survive for roughly 400 years and does not reach adulthood until around 150
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 15, 2026
Earth & Environment
A cotton T-shirt has an estimated water footprint of about 2,700 litres, including rainwater, irrigation water and pollution-dilution water
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 15, 2026
Earth & Environment
By 2030, global data centres are projected to carry a water footprint equal to the basic annual domestic needs of 1.3 billion people
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 15, 2026
Life
In the final minutes of a deep-sea dive, scientists saw white clams and giant tube worms surrounding volcanic vents and realized they had…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 15, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Why some people apologise when they are not at fault: what research on self-blame and conflict avoidance suggests
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 15, 2026
Space
When Ann Druyan’s heartbeat was recorded for the Voyager Golden Record, she had just fallen in love with Carl Sagan, meaning a private…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 15, 2026
Technology
Google’s Willow quantum chip completed a benchmark in under five minutes that Google estimates would take a leading supercomputer 10…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 14, 2026
Health
Preliminary evidence suggests ADHD symptoms and perceived stimulant effectiveness can vary across the menstrual cycle
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 14, 2026
Earth & Environment
Chinampas were fixed raised wetland fields with canal irrigation, and complex rotations could yield up to seven harvests a year
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 14, 2026
Earth & Environment
A flame has burned inside a grotto behind a waterfall near Buffalo for generations, through rain and snow, and when geologists finally…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 14, 2026
Social Sciences
South Korea had one of the poorest populations in the world after the Korean War, yet people born there today have among the longest life…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 14, 2026