Space
Mercury is almost airless, reaches 430°C by day and −180°C at night, yet MESSENGER data suggest its ancient crust contained volatile-rich…
Aug 30, 2026
August 2026
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Earth & Environment
Three schoolgirls in Kinsale pulled up a pea plant covered in warts and, instead of binning it, spent three years testing 13,000 seeds in a…
Aug 30, 2026
Earth & Environment
Kentucky released 1,541 elk onto the strip-mined coalfields of its eastern counties between 1997 and 2002, and the herd now runs about…
Aug 30, 2026
Social Sciences
More than 2.5 kilometres of previously unrecorded pre-Hispanic road, including a zigzagging main road of at least 1.2 kilometres, has been…
Aug 30, 2026
Earth & Environment
At Nevada's 1.8-million-panel Gemini solar farm, a rare desert milkvetch produced eight times more flowers and ten times more fruit than…
Aug 30, 2026
Earth & Environment
An analysis of 23,424 investment funds holding $25 trillion found 1.5 percent aligned with limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius…
By Jeanette Brown · Aug 30, 2026
Life
A school nature club fossicking on the shore of Kawhia Harbour in 2006 thought they had found a rusty boat propeller set in the mudstone
Aug 30, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Simple habits to regain control of your life, and what the science says 'control' really means
Aug 30, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Emotional tears may have evolved not merely to express sadness, but to change the behaviour of the people around us
Aug 30, 2026
Life
Humpback whales have been seen helping seals, sea lions and even sunfish escape orca attacks
By Daniel Moran · Aug 30, 2026
Earth & Environment
Australia's strange 'fairy circles' may mark buried hydrogen, and that could matter for clean energy
Aug 30, 2026
Social Sciences
Researchers who followed 1,004 Dutch retirees found that those who had climbed steeply in their careers were less likely to miss their old…
Aug 30, 2026
Life
Humans are the only great ape known to have uniformly white sclera, making every shift of the eyes unusually easy to follow
Aug 30, 2026
Earth & Environment
A single cotton T-shirt can have a water footprint of roughly 2,500 litres
By Daniel Moran · Aug 30, 2026