Life
When an Antarctic iceberg the size of Chicago broke off in January 2025, scientists raced to look beneath it and found a thriving ecosystem…
Aug 30, 2026
August 2026
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Technology
A $200 ChatGPT Pro subscription could represent as much as $14,000 a month in equivalent API-priced usage if pushed to its limits…
Aug 30, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Thought of the day from Greek philosopher Epicurus: "We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness"
Aug 30, 2026
Life
Scientists analysed 11.8 million locations from 4,581 animals across the United States and found that wildlife responds not only to the…
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 30, 2026
Technology
Humans are still cheaper than AI for most work involving tasks that computer vision could technically automate, MIT researchers found
Aug 29, 2026
Space
Enceladus looks nothing like a habitable world
Aug 29, 2026
Technology
Many AI reasoning models burn through long chains of intermediate tokens before answering
Aug 29, 2026
Life
Why 34 of 38 crickets in a dark glass tube walked away from a synthetic copy of one terpene found in a bat's snout secretions, and why the…
Aug 29, 2026
Space
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope launched on August 30 carrying a mirror the same 2.4-metre diameter as Hubble’s
Aug 29, 2026
Brain & Behavior
The ten-thousand-hour study was redone with thirty-nine violinists under double-blind conditions, and the group rated merely good had…
Aug 29, 2026
Health
Moving from UMF 5+ to UMF 20+ Manuka honey cut the concentration needed to shut down 95 percent of MRSA growth in a lab dish from 15…
Aug 29, 2026
Brain & Behavior
A Harvard psychologist and his colleague set out to discover how many moving objects the human imagination can track simultaneously
Aug 29, 2026
Life
Add up every sparrow, crow, eagle, penguin and owl left in the wild, and the world's farmed chickens alone still outweigh them two to three…
Aug 29, 2026
Earth & Environment
In the middle of South Africa's worst drought on record, a 16-year-old boiled orange peels, added avocado skins and left the mix out in the…
By Brendan Brown · Aug 29, 2026