Science
Skeletal muscle burns through its entire ATP supply in about two seconds of hard effort, and a backup molecule stored at roughly 120…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 17, 2026
July 2026
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Science
England and Wales recorded about 2,700 heat-related deaths across two 2026 heatwaves, with housing increasing vulnerability
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 17, 2026
Science
Tree-swallow declines vary by latitude as warming and spring temperature swings disrupt breeding conditions
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 17, 2026
Space
In 2017, a single lightning bolt stretched an incredible 829 kilometres from Texas to Missouri, setting a mind-boggling world record for…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 17, 2026
Space
You never see the Sun as it is, only as it was
By Mal James · Jul 17, 2026
Life
In 1665, Robert Hooke pressed a sliver of cork under his handmade microscope, saw thousands of tiny empty compartments that reminded him of…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 17, 2026
Life
We tend to read a wagging tail as pure canine joy, but scientists who watched dogs closely suggest something subtler
By Mal James · Jul 17, 2026
Science
Marie Curie and her husband Pierre spent nearly four years boiling down seven tonnes of pitchblende in a leaky Paris shed with no…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 17, 2026
Life
Scientists hid speakers along a third of a mile of hiking trail in Boulder, Colorado, to fake a richer birdsong chorus, and hikers who…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 17, 2026
Life
When researchers paired a human scent with the mechanical shock of a swat, female Aedes mosquitoes learned to avoid that individual odour…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 17, 2026
Life
Ostriches do not bury their heads in sand — they would suffocate
By Mal James · Jul 17, 2026
Social Sciences
I'm WEIRD, it turns out, and so is almost everyone psychology has ever studied
By Nato Lagidze · Jul 17, 2026
Earth & Environment
Blue zones promised the secret to living past 100. Its famous debunking is being disputed too
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 17, 2026
Life
A dog year is not seven human years: dogs age fastest when young, so a one-year-old is more like a teenager than a seven-year-old, and a…
By Mal James · Jul 17, 2026