Earth & Environment
In 2025, Earth’s oceans absorbed more heat than in any year since modern measurements began—an estimated 23 zettajoules, equivalent to…
Aug 25, 2026
August 2026
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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…
Aug 25, 2026
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Thought of the day from Stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius
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…
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
Aug 25, 2026
Earth & Environment
A coal seam beneath Australia's Burning Mountain has been smouldering for about 6,000 years
Aug 25, 2026
Life
Twenty years of feeding records found wild Bornean orangutans repeatedly combining plants with documented medicinal properties more often…
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…
Aug 25, 2026
Life
Researchers attached an artificial muscle to a real seal whisker and found why seals can hunt in complete darkness
Aug 25, 2026
Space
Only one antenna on Earth can still send commands to Voyager 2
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…
Aug 25, 2026
Life
Female treefrogs given a chorus of potential mates became less selective, not more
Aug 24, 2026
Life
Most humpback whale populations have rebounded from near-extinction over the past sixty years, but the Arabian Sea population
Aug 24, 2026