Earth & Environment
The 2022 Hunga Tonga eruption produced the largest underwater explosion ever recorded by modern instruments
By The Long View · Aug 24, 2026
August 2026
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Life
A single aspen colony in Utah called Pando covers 43 hectares as roughly 47,000 genetically identical stems sharing one root system, making…
By The Long View · Aug 24, 2026
Brain & Behavior
A 2025 study coauthored at the University of Toronto found that actively trying to maximise happiness weakened subsequent self-control
By Mind & Matter · Aug 24, 2026
Life
UC Berkeley researchers reconstructing the ancestry of more than 500 living human genomes identified DNA from two unidentified human…
By Lab Report · Aug 24, 2026
Social Sciences
Sixteen mummified people and a mummified canid accumulated in a single Egyptian side chamber just over five metres long over at least three…
By The Long View · Aug 24, 2026
Health
Scientists assumed semaglutide’s long-term effects would depend on silencing the brain’s hunger neurons
By The Long View · Aug 24, 2026
Earth & Environment
Osprey nests on American power poles can weigh 200 pounds and set the poles they sit on alight, and one burning nest in May cut power to…
By Brendan Brown · Aug 24, 2026
Health
A gut bacterium called Roseburia inulinivorans increased muscle strength in mice, while older adults with detectable levels had 29 per cent…
By The Long View · Aug 24, 2026
Earth & Environment
Engineers bolted ultrasonic speakers to turbines at a Pennsylvania wind farm and searched the ground beneath them every day for two…
By Brendan Brown · Aug 24, 2026
Health
South Korean women are projected to become the first national population in history with an average life expectancy above 90. An Imperial…
By The Long View · Aug 24, 2026
Health
Older adults following earlier meal schedules had a 10-year survival rate of 89.5%, compared with 86.7% among later eaters—but Harvard and…
By Lab Report · Aug 24, 2026
Life
The mantis shrimp is routinely described as seeing millions more colours than humans, but a 2014 Science study found something stranger
By Natural History · Aug 23, 2026
Life
An octopus has three hearts, but during jet-propelled swimming its main systemic heart can briefly stop—the pressure inside its mantle…
By Natural History · Aug 23, 2026
Space
Astronomers discovered a comet passing through our solar system in July 2025 carrying organic molecules formed in a distant star system—the…
By The Long View · Aug 23, 2026