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
By The Long View · Aug 22, 2026
August 2026
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Life
Researchers moved an artificial flower to the ceiling and watched bumblebees roll a ball underneath, climb onto it, and reach the reward
By Natural History · 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
By The Long View · Aug 22, 2026
Life
Reindeer rebuild the reflective tissue behind their eyes from gold in summer to deep blue in winter
By Natural History · Aug 22, 2026
Life
While a zebra finch sings, the two halves of its brain coordinate within a fraction of a millisecond
By Natural History · 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…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · 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
By The Long View · Aug 21, 2026
Life
Young reef octopuses do not slap every fish that gets close
By Natural History · Aug 21, 2026
Life
An accidental laboratory flood revealed that hibernating queen bumblebees can survive completely underwater for seven days
By Natural History · 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…
By Mind & Matter · 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…
By The Long View · Aug 21, 2026
Life
What looks like a healthy tree standing alone after its neighbour was removed is often a tree in slow crisis
By Natural History · Aug 21, 2026