Life
Off Hervey Bay, a dolphin named Maserati surfaced carrying a fish-filled bailer shell, then dropped it to pursue the escaping prey
Aug 31, 2026
August 2026
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Life
A bowhead whale can live beyond 200 years and carries roughly a thousand times as many cells as a human, yet it is not highly cancer-prone
Aug 31, 2026
Life
A fanged “vampire deer” thought gone from West Bengal for nearly 70 years has appeared on a camera trap
By Daniel Moran · Aug 31, 2026
Earth & Environment
Scientists sent robots more than two kilometres beneath the Pacific and mapped enormous lava fields around an active volcano
By Daniel Moran · Aug 31, 2026
Life
A tiny turtle raised at a Massachusetts zoo was released into the wild in 2011 and disappeared from researchers for 12 years
Aug 31, 2026
Space
The $4.3 billion Roman Space Telescope was built around a mirror the U.S. intelligence community no longer needed
Aug 31, 2026
Earth & Environment
Wolves live at seven times the density inside Chernobyl's exclusion zone as in the uncontaminated nature reserves nearby, and elk, deer and…
Aug 31, 2026
Technology
A 14-year-old in Kerala sketched a washing machine around a bicycle chain because the river was costing her her homework hours
By Brendan Brown · Aug 31, 2026
Technology
Meta is reportedly testing robots inside its data centres that can swap networking cables and restart servers—and one worker estimates a…
Aug 31, 2026
Earth & Environment
Ivanpah's 173,500 mirrors focused enough Mojave sun on three towers to ignite birds in flight, as many as 6,000 a year by one estimate, and…
Aug 31, 2026
Science
Jellyfish took three of the six reactors at France's Gravelines nuclear plant offline this summer and cut a fourth to half power, as they…
By Brendan Brown · Aug 31, 2026
Life
Western disgust at eating insects may have roots deeper than culture
Aug 31, 2026
Brain & Behavior
The psychology of over-apologizing: what genuinely happy people have stopped saying sorry for, and why
Aug 31, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Does wealth make you better? The research says it depends entirely on what you do with it
Aug 31, 2026