Health
A University of Basel study found that around the full moon, participants took longer to fall asleep, slept less deeply and produced less…
Jul 12, 2026
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Physics
Bananas are naturally slightly radioactive because they are rich in potassium, and the dose is so measurable that scientists half-jokingly…
Jul 12, 2026
Health
Columbia researchers combed through 9,000 patient records and found a link between the most prescribed antidepressants and faster-failing…
Jul 12, 2026
Brain & Behavior
A Nature Neuroscience study used GPS to track 122 people across New York and Miami for months, and found the days they moved through more…
Jul 12, 2026
Earth & Environment
Nearly three kilometres beneath a Canadian mine, geologists found water that may have been isolated in the rock for roughly two billion…
Jul 12, 2026
Science
We tend to think diet and exercise are the pillars of a long life, but a 2025 Oregon Health & Science University study found insufficient…
Jul 12, 2026
Life
The human gut replaces its entire lining every 4 to 5 days, and the stem cells at the base of each intestinal crypt divide faster than…
Jul 12, 2026
Space
Voyager 1 was launched in 1977 with a suite of 10 science instruments
Jul 12, 2026
Health
Scientists have found that every time you tighten your abdominal muscles, even slightly, your brain gently sways inside your skull
Jul 12, 2026
Science
Researchers have identified tiny particles released by the gut that appear to actively drive the inflammation behind ageing and chronic…
Jul 12, 2026
Science
Watching the brain in real time, researchers found that social behaviour begins in the brain before it becomes visible as movement
Jul 12, 2026
Science
Researchers who mapped every neural connection in an adult fruit fly's central nervous system
Jul 12, 2026
Life
The first primates may not have evolved in warm tropical forests at all
Jul 12, 2026
Science
A 125-million-year-old dinosaur unearthed in China was preserved so perfectly that individual skin cells are still visible, and it was…
Jul 12, 2026