Earth & Environment
One tonne of discarded mobile-phone handsets can contain about 130 kilograms of copper, 3.5 kilograms of silver and 300 to 350 grams of gold
Aug 23, 2026
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Earth & Environment
If you compressed Earth's entire atmosphere down to sea-level density, it would form a shell only about eight kilometres thick around a…
Aug 22, 2026
Earth & Environment
Singapore treats trees as more than decoration
By Daniel Moran · Aug 22, 2026
Brain & Behavior
A 2026 analysis of 488,765 people followed for as long as 32 years found that a stronger sense of purpose in life was associated with about…
Aug 22, 2026
Life
A fragment of fossil thigh bone was the only piece carrying this specimen's collection number, and losing it hid where the animal came from…
Aug 22, 2026
Life
South Korean men born in 1996 were estimated to be about 15.2 centimetres taller than men born there in 1896
Aug 22, 2026
Health
Sleep apnea starts with a blocked airway, but some of the damage may travel through the gut
Aug 22, 2026
Technology
James Dyson went through 5,127 prototypes while developing his cyclonic bagless vacuum cleaner
Aug 22, 2026
Health
A natural experiment involving more than 280,000 Welsh adults found that shingles vaccination cut new dementia diagnoses by 20% over seven…
Aug 22, 2026
Life
The textbook reason insects never colonised the deep ocean is that water pressure would crush their airways
By Brendan Brown · Aug 22, 2026
Earth & Environment
Americans throw away 50,000 mattresses every day, and what makes them a landfill nightmare isn't the foam or chemicals
By Brendan Brown · Aug 22, 2026
Brain & Behavior
A 2026 study has added to evidence that the gut microbiome may be linked to human cognition, finding genetic signatures associated with…
Aug 22, 2026
Life
A worm frozen in Siberian permafrost for 46,000 years
By Brendan Brown · Aug 22, 2026
Brain & Behavior
American men’s friendship circles shrank dramatically between 1990 and 2021
Aug 22, 2026