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All the gold ever mined in human history
By The Long View · Aug 28, 2026
August 2026
Every article published in August 2026. 628 articles · Back to full archive
Space
From roughly 400 kilometres above Earth, ISS astronauts experience about 16 sunrises every day—not because the Sun rises faster, but…
By The Long View · Aug 28, 2026
Social Sciences
In 1990, a third of Americans said they had ten or more close friends. By 2021, that was one in eight
By Nato Lagidze · Aug 28, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Thought of the day from Stoic philosopher Epictetus
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 28, 2026
Earth & Environment
Earth’s oceans are probably hotter than at any point in at least 1,000 years and are warming faster than they have for millennia
By Lab Report · Aug 28, 2026
Earth & Environment
High Mountain Asia—the “Asian Water Tower” supporting hundreds of millions downstream—lost groundwater at an estimated 24.2 billion tonnes…
By Lab Report · Aug 27, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Sheep have a face-recognition system so similar to our own that researchers at the University of Cambridge are using them to study…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 27, 2026
Health
A Phase 3 trial found 87 percent fewer hereditary-angioedema attacks with one gene-editing treatment than with placebo
By Lab Report · Aug 27, 2026
Earth & Environment
The oldest water ever found was hiding inside Canadian bedrock
By Daniel Moran · Aug 27, 2026
Uncategorized
Off the southern coast of South Korea, a lava tube called Manjanggul on Jeju Island stretches for more than seven kilometres underground…
By Ainura Kalau · Aug 27, 2026
Space
On 1 July 2025, a planetary-defence telescope in Chile built to spot dangerous asteroids found something far rarer
By The Long View · Aug 27, 2026
Life
Elephants don't simply walk away when one of their own dies
By Daniel Moran · Aug 27, 2026
Life
Baby goats raised in the same herd start out bleating differently from one another, but researchers in the UK found that by five weeks old…
By Natural History · Aug 27, 2026
Brain & Behavior
There is an old saying that bad men attract good women, and the psychology of first impressions explains why it looks true even though the…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 27, 2026