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In 2007, researchers exposed dehydrated tardigrades—eight-legged animals less than a millimetre long—to the vacuum of space for ten days
Aug 31, 2026
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Life
Island mammals don’t just slowly drift from their mainland relatives over millions of years
Aug 30, 2026
Technology
Private AI investment in the United States reached $285.9 billion in 2025—23 times China’s $12.4 billion—yet by March 2026, the countries’…
Aug 30, 2026
Technology
University of Tokyo researchers dried, powdered and heat-pressed food scraps including banana peels, orange rinds and cabbage leaves into…
Aug 30, 2026
Science
On 22 June in a Wrocław terrarium a Komodo egg that had incubated for 202 days hatched a 34-centimetre lizard weighing 115 grams with no…
Aug 30, 2026
Earth & Environment
Discarded PET bottles and corn stalks went through a 32-step heat-and-oxygen breakdown in Carbondale, then yeasts rebuilt the carbon as…
Aug 30, 2026
Earth & Environment
On August 4, 2026, a 76-square-kilometre section of Greenland’s Petermann Glacier—roughly the size of Manhattan and up to 150 metres…
Aug 30, 2026
Technology
Dario Amodei’s thought experiment for 2027
Aug 30, 2026
Earth & Environment
An 86-year-old Pennsylvania farmer rejected roughly $15.7 million
Aug 30, 2026
Life
Scientists once thought zebra stripes might help confuse predators, but when researchers dressed horses in zebra-striped coats, biting…
By Daniel Moran · Aug 30, 2026
Life
Aquarium releases probably seeded the Atlantic lionfish invasion
Aug 30, 2026
Life
A moth dismissed by the leading expert on its group in 1927 as “better neglected” remained overlooked in London’s Natural History Museum…
Aug 30, 2026
Life
Water pumped up from Michigan gas wells as deep as 556 metres carried between 4,200 and 6,800 fungal cells in every millilitre, and…
Aug 30, 2026
Life
Wild chimpanzees in Ivory Coast’s Taï National Park combine a repertoire of 12 calls into meaningful sequences—and a 2025 study of 53…
Aug 30, 2026