Technology
Antibiotic resistance directly kills more than a million people annually, while antibiotic discovery has stagnated
Aug 26, 2026
August 2026
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Social Sciences
Researchers surveyed 393 mothers and found nearly nine in ten felt solely responsible for organising the family's schedule, and 65 per cent…
Aug 26, 2026
Space
In her 1925 Radcliffe thesis, Cecilia Payne calculated that stars are overwhelmingly hydrogen and helium
Aug 26, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Finland has now ranked as the world’s happiest country for nine consecutive years, and Oxford-led researchers say its success reflects more…
Aug 26, 2026
Earth & Environment
The 2004 earthquake lifted parts of North Sentinel Island by an estimated one to two metres and exposed its surrounding coral reef
Aug 25, 2026
Life
The Greenland shark may live for nearly four centuries by doing almost everything slowly
By Daniel Moran · Aug 25, 2026
Brain & Behavior
In 1978, researchers interviewed 22 major lottery winners between one and 18 months after their wins and found that they reported no…
Aug 25, 2026
Life
Mammal ancestors were long assumed to lay eggs, until a growth ring inside the thigh bone of a 236-million-year-old Argentine cynodont put…
Aug 25, 2026
Health
Running uphill can demand more energy, but running back downhill can leave the muscles more damaged
Aug 25, 2026
Life
Worker bees filtered 95 percent of a pesticide out of the food they stored on day two and only 86 percent by day ten, and in the same…
Aug 25, 2026
Life
When pandemic traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge fell to levels not seen since the 1950s, San Francisco's white-crowned sparrows quickly…
Aug 25, 2026
Life
Dog owners were 31% less likely to die from cardiovascular causes than non-owners in a major analysis, according to the American Heart…
By Daniel Moran · Aug 25, 2026
Technology
Merck and Moderna announced on 19 August 2026 that a personalised mRNA cancer vaccine had succeeded in a Phase 3 trial
By Daniel Moran · Aug 25, 2026
Earth & Environment
Plants account for about 80 per cent of Earth's biomass measured as carbon, roughly 450 gigatonnes, while estimates suggest human land use…
Aug 25, 2026