Earth & Environment
The worst mass extinction in Earth's history struck 252 million years ago, before dinosaurs had even appeared
By Natural History · Aug 21, 2026
August 2026
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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…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 21, 2026
Space
Astronomers have confirmed a super-Earth in the habitable zone of GJ 887
By Lab Report · Aug 21, 2026
Life
Dimetrodon — the sail-backed predator routinely mistaken for a dinosaur — first appeared roughly 60 million years before the earliest…
By Natural History · Aug 21, 2026
Space
NASA's twin study found one modest thing
By Lab Report · 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…
By Mind & Matter · Aug 21, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Your brain has no dedicated decision-making centre
By Science Blog Editorial Team · 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
By The Long View · Aug 21, 2026
Life
Pigeons were trained to tell a Monet from a Picasso, and then did something odder
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 21, 2026
Life
A lion’s roar can travel eight kilometres across open savanna, but it is not only a war cry
By Daniel Moran · Aug 20, 2026
Health
People who drink their coffee in the morning and then stop may be onto something
By The Long View · Aug 20, 2026