Life
What looks like a healthy tree standing alone after its neighbour was removed is often a tree in slow crisis
Aug 21, 2026
August 2026
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Earth & Environment
The worst mass extinction in Earth's history struck 252 million years ago, before dinosaurs had even appeared
Aug 21, 2026
Social Sciences
Canopy-penetrating laser scans along 4,430 kilometres of flight lines over Acre and Amazonas found 432 earthworks where only 36 had been…
Aug 21, 2026
Space
Astronomers have confirmed a super-Earth in the habitable zone of GJ 887
Aug 21, 2026
Life
Dimetrodon — the sail-backed predator routinely mistaken for a dinosaur — first appeared roughly 60 million years before the earliest…
Aug 21, 2026
Space
NASA's twin study found one modest thing
Aug 21, 2026
Earth & Environment
On 16 September 2023, seismometers on every continent began recording the same signal repeating every 92 seconds, and it continued for nine…
By Brendan Brown · Aug 21, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Researchers examining identical twins raised apart found that twins given very different educations differed by an average of 15 IQ points…
Aug 21, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Your brain has no dedicated decision-making centre
Aug 21, 2026
Life
We picture fertilization as millions of sperm racing alone
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 21, 2026
Earth & Environment
Perovskite solar cells began at just 3.8% efficiency in 2009. Seventeen years later, a perovskite-silicon tandem cell has hit a certified…
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 21, 2026
Health
The Mediterranean diet we know was effectively invented in 1958 by an American physiologist studying the island of Crete
Aug 21, 2026
Health
Researchers tracked 147,374 people for up to 30 years and found a striking strength-training sweet spot
Aug 21, 2026
Life
Pigeons were trained to tell a Monet from a Picasso, and then did something odder
Aug 21, 2026