Earth & Environment
Humans have visually observed less than 0.001 percent of the deep ocean floor
Aug 22, 2026
August 2026
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Social Sciences
China's population peaked at about 1.41 billion in 2021 and the UN projects it will fall to about 633 million by 2100
Aug 22, 2026
Life
Researchers moved an artificial flower to the ceiling and watched bumblebees roll a ball underneath, climb onto it, and reach the reward
Aug 22, 2026
Physics
Start with one cent on day one and double it every day, and by day 30 you would have $5,368,709.12
Aug 22, 2026
Life
Reindeer rebuild the reflective tissue behind their eyes from gold in summer to deep blue in winter
Aug 22, 2026
Life
While a zebra finch sings, the two halves of its brain coordinate within a fraction of a millisecond
Aug 21, 2026
Earth & Environment
Researchers following 196 radio-tagged sea otters off California found that otters using rocks, shells and other objects as tools could…
Aug 21, 2026
Space
A laser array on Earth could one day push a gram-scale spacecraft to roughly 20% of the speed of light
Aug 21, 2026
Life
Young reef octopuses do not slap every fish that gets close
Aug 21, 2026
Life
An accidental laboratory flood revealed that hibernating queen bumblebees can survive completely underwater for seven days
Aug 21, 2026
Life
A radio backpack lighter than a raindrop is now riding on monarch butterflies
By Brendan Brown · Aug 21, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Primatologist Shirley Strum has spent more than fifty years following the same olive baboons in Kenya, and what she found was not a…
Aug 21, 2026
Brain & Behavior
For 28 minutes, Jakarta air traffic control called the cockpit of an Airbus A320 and received no answer
By Brendan Brown · Aug 21, 2026
Earth & Environment
The mantis shrimp punches with the acceleration of a .22 calibre bullet, creating a cavitation bubble that collapses at nearly the…
Aug 21, 2026