Technology
Methuselah is among the oldest confirmed living non-clonal trees, with rings dating to roughly 2833 BC
Jul 13, 2026
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Social Sciences
The Basque language of the Pyrenees has no known living relative anywhere on Earth
Jul 13, 2026
Earth & Environment
We tend to imagine the deep ocean as a largely empty void, but after nearly seventy years of exploration, humans have visually observed…
Jul 13, 2026
Earth & Environment
The Late Ordovician extinction 443 million years ago struck in two pulses driven by opposite climate extremes
Jul 13, 2026
Earth & Environment
A high-altitude Pyrenees cave records recurrent use from the early fifth millennium BC, including 23 hearths and probably malachite…
Jul 13, 2026
Earth & Environment
About 60 wild Wollemi pines survive in closely guarded canyon sites after the species was rediscovered in 1994
Jul 13, 2026
Brain & Behavior
In the late 1960s, Walter Mischel and his colleagues at Stanford offered preschoolers a choice between one treat immediately or a larger…
Jul 13, 2026
Brain & Behavior
In 2023, roughly one in four American adults reported eating every meal alone on the previous day
Jul 13, 2026
Space
A spacecraft called DART was deliberately crashed into an asteroid in 2022 to test whether humanity could deflect one, and it worked
Jul 13, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Marine biologist Wallace J. Nichols spent roughly a decade interviewing surfers, sailors, swimmers, scientists and others about their…
Jul 13, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Small studies have found lower short-term stress markers after forest walks, but lasting effects remain uncertain
Jul 12, 2026
Earth & Environment
Roughly five and a half million years ago the Mediterranean dried up almost entirely, and when the Atlantic finally broke back through at…
Jul 12, 2026
Science
A 2022 study detected an average of 1.6 micrograms of plastic per millilitre in blood from 22 volunteers
Jul 12, 2026
Life
In 1938, a South African fisherman hauled up a fish that scientists believed had been extinct for 65 million years
Jul 12, 2026