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…
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…
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…
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…
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
Jul 21, 2026
Earth & Environment
A reef off Benin was written off as dead sixty years ago
Jul 21, 2026
Social Sciences
A bitter irony sits in the credits of The Wolf of Wall Street
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