Science
A paleontologist noticed the dirt inside a fossil rodent's empty tooth sockets was smoother than sediment should ever be
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 21, 2026
July 2026
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Social Sciences
The 'tallest' mountain on Earth is named after a man who asked for it not to be
By Mal James · Jul 21, 2026
Environment
In 2011 the Netherlands dumped twenty one and a half million cubic meters of sand into the sea in one enormous pile, and let wind and tide…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 21, 2026
Brain & Behavior
A reminder from Stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius to live in the present
By Mal James · Jul 20, 2026
Earth & Environment
A University of California, Riverside study published in Nature Communications found that a weakening Atlantic Ocean current thousands of…
By Lachlan Brown · Jul 20, 2026
Life
In 1856, workers quarrying limestone in Germany's Neander Valley pulled 16 bone fragments from a cave they were about to blow up, tossed…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 20, 2026
Space
Astronomers just confirmed the first atmosphere around a rocky planet in another star's habitable zone
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 20, 2026
Earth & Environment
The UN’s new blue economy framework is not really about oceans, it is an attempt to force fisheries, offshore wind, tourism, and coastal…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 20, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Psychology says people who feel emotionally lighter within minutes of arriving at the ocean aren’t imagining it
By Lachlan Brown · Jul 20, 2026
Earth & Environment
Earth's inner core is not pure iron — a 2025 Oxford study found it could only have begun to freeze if roughly 3.8 percent of it is carbon…
By Lachlan Brown · Jul 20, 2026
Earth & Environment
Every second, the Sun converts about 600 million tonnes of hydrogen into helium and loses roughly 4 million tonnes of that mass outright as…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 20, 2026
Science
In May 1952, Rosalind Franklin and her graduate student Raymond Gosling exposed a hydrated DNA fibre to X-rays for 62 hours in a King's…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 20, 2026
Earth & Environment
The world's tallest waterfall is not Angel Falls
By Lachlan Brown · Jul 20, 2026
Space
Energy created in the Sun’s core can spend around 170,000 years bouncing through the radiative zone before reaching the outer layers
By Lachlan Brown · Jul 20, 2026