Social Sciences
Australopithecus is not a single branch of the human family tree, a point its own field has long recognised, so why does a new paper argue…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 25, 2026
August 2026
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Thought of the day from Stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 25, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Across roughly 1,000 languages, those that pack more information into each word tend to move meaning faster but cover less ground in…
By Lab Report · Aug 25, 2026
Brain & Behavior
The people you become friends with may already process the world like you do before either of you says hello
By Mind & Matter · Aug 25, 2026
Earth & Environment
A coal seam beneath Australia's Burning Mountain has been smouldering for about 6,000 years
By Natural History · Aug 25, 2026
Life
Twenty years of feeding records found wild Bornean orangutans repeatedly combining plants with documented medicinal properties more often…
By Natural History · Aug 25, 2026
Earth & Environment
On 5 July 2024, Earth completed a rotation 1.66 milliseconds short of 86,400 seconds, the shortest day measured in the atomic-clock era…
By Lab Report · Aug 25, 2026
Life
Researchers attached an artificial muscle to a real seal whisker and found why seals can hunt in complete darkness
By Natural History · Aug 25, 2026
Space
Only one antenna on Earth can still send commands to Voyager 2
By The Long View · Aug 25, 2026
Earth & Environment
When Hunga Tonga erupted underwater in 2022, it fired so much water vapour into the upper atmosphere that it measurably increased the total…
By Kiran Journals · Aug 25, 2026
Life
Researchers watched roughly 200 juvenile arapaima surface for air in bursts of up to 100 fish at once, each collective breath lasting less…
By Natural History · Aug 25, 2026
Life
Female treefrogs given a chorus of potential mates became less selective, not more
By Natural History · Aug 24, 2026
Life
Most humpback whale populations have rebounded from near-extinction over the past sixty years, but the Arabian Sea population
By Natural History · Aug 24, 2026
Life
A survey of 491 primate species found same-sex sexual behaviour was most likely in long-lived animals facing food scarcity, predation…
By Natural History · Aug 24, 2026