Physics
The flu virus doesn't just infect cells — it quietly dismantles a nuclear structure most biologists barely study, and that turns out to be…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 22, 2026
July 2026
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Brain & Behavior
There may be a hard ceiling on friendship, set not by our schedules but by the human brain itself
By Mal James · Jul 22, 2026
Space
A private Indian rocket just carried a lab-grown diamond lotus to orbit, and the payload manifest quietly reveals what New Delhi actually…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 22, 2026
Life
The oldest known land animal alive today hatched before the telephone was invented
By Mal James · Jul 22, 2026
Life
Most people think a goldfish forgets everything within seconds, which helps make the little bowl seem humane — but that is a myth
By Mal James · Jul 22, 2026
Earth & Environment
To guard its nuclear waste for 100,000 years, Finland is trusting copper, clay and ancient stone
By Mal James · Jul 22, 2026
Life
It walked on two legs, wore a beak, and looked just like a small dinosaur
By Mal James · Jul 22, 2026
Brain & Behavior
A type of protein damage chemists compare to bread turning brown in a toaster has been building up in human tissue for decades, and a new…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 21, 2026
Environment
A single long-haul flight can expose you to more cosmic radiation than you'd absorb in weeks on the ground, and the higher and farther…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 21, 2026
Earth & Environment
While the rest of the world braces for longer wildfire seasons, Africa's fires have been quietly retreating for 20 years
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 21, 2026
Earth & Environment
A reef off Benin was written off as dead sixty years ago
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 21, 2026
Social Sciences
A bitter irony sits in the credits of The Wolf of Wall Street
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 21, 2026
Brain & Behavior
NASA’s astronaut selection process goes far beyond résumés, intelligence and physical fitness
By Lachlan Brown · Jul 21, 2026
Earth & Environment
In 2017, Australia officially shifted its national coordinates 1.8 meters northeast
By Lachlan Brown · Jul 21, 2026