Space
We tend to think Everest is the mountain closest to outer space, but it isn't
Jul 11, 2026
July 2026
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Science
In 1991, eight people sealed themselves inside a glass world in the Arizona desert for two years, and the experiment nearly unravelled when…
Jul 11, 2026
Health
Dick Van Dyke turned 100 on 13 December 2025 after telling an interviewer, “I never wake up in a bad mood”—and a major 2019 US study found…
Jul 11, 2026
Technology
A randomized trial by METR found that experienced developers completed real coding tasks 19% slower when allowed to use AI tools
Jul 11, 2026
Technology
The Dalles spent 13 months fighting to keep Google’s water use secret
Jul 11, 2026
Earth & Environment
In 1971, Apollo 14 astronaut Stuart Roosa carried hundreds of tree seeds around the Moon in his personal kit, and the ordinary-looking…
Jul 11, 2026
Science
The longest-running study of human happiness in history began at Harvard in 1938, and after almost nine decades of data the strongest…
Jul 11, 2026
Science
A parasite that infects an estimated one-third of humanity has repeatedly been linked with differences in risk-taking, impulsivity and…
Jul 10, 2026
Health
During pregnancy, some of a fetus’s cells cross into the mother and can remain there for decades, a phenomenon called fetal microchimerism
Jul 10, 2026
Technology
Writing a single 100-word email with ChatGPT consumes approximately the volume of a standard bottle of water, the global infrastructure…
Jul 10, 2026
Life
The 507-year-old “Ming” clam was the oldest reliably aged individual non-colonial animal known
Jul 10, 2026
Space
The Apollo astronauts left mirrors on the Moon, and every night since, observatories have been bouncing lasers off them to measure the…
Jul 10, 2026
Life
Pando, a single quaking aspen in Utah, is one organism made of roughly 47,000 genetically identical stems sharing one root system across…
Jul 10, 2026
Science
In September 1928, Alexander Fleming returned from holiday to find a mold-contaminated Staphylococcus plate with a clear bacteria-free halo
Jul 10, 2026