Social Sciences
Two researchers who measured real campfires report that firelight is bright enough to read a pair of hands, and argue that its flicker may…
Sep 6, 2026
September 2026
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Earth & Environment
More than 10 million dead trees are standing like tombstones along America’s Atlantic coast
By Daniel Moran · Sep 6, 2026
Earth & Environment
Archaeologists found a 1,200-year-old island in Fiji made almost entirely of discarded shellfish
By Daniel Moran · Sep 6, 2026
Earth & Environment
Scientists mapped beneath Utah’s Great Salt Lake and found a potentially vast reservoir of freshwater hiding under one of America’s…
By Daniel Moran · Sep 6, 2026
Life
Researchers analysing 469 rumbles from wild African elephants in Kenya found that calls contained name-like information identifying their…
Sep 6, 2026
Earth & Environment
Canada built 44 bridges and tunnels across a single stretch of highway so that animals could cross without dying, and collisions with…
By Brendan Brown · Sep 6, 2026
Life
In 2006, University of Washington biologist John Marzluff wore a caveman mask while trapping and banding seven Seattle crows
Sep 6, 2026
Earth & Environment
About a tenth of what comes out of malt whisky production is spirit, while Scotland's malt whisky industry produces almost 750,000 metric…
Sep 6, 2026
Life
Black vultures nested a metre or two from an incubating Chaco eagle on an abandoned Argentine hunting tower, and the eagle's egg was gone…
Sep 6, 2026
Earth & Environment
President Trump's September 4, 2026 executive order directs USDA to widen three existing pathways
Sep 6, 2026
Earth & Environment
Africa's plan for an 8,000-kilometer wall of trees against the Sahara kept dying in the ground for years, and the approach that finally…
By Brendan Brown · Sep 6, 2026
Earth & Environment
An Australian solar farm has shared its rows with 1,700 merino sheep for three years, and the farmer says the fleece tests on wool growth…
By Brendan Brown · Sep 6, 2026
Life
Thirty-five dogs watched forty second videos of three human faces, one of them their own owner's, and blinked at a higher rate when the…
Sep 6, 2026
Earth & Environment
Namibia's capital has been drinking its own sewage since 1968, when eight years of pilot work produced a system whose current plant pushes…
Sep 6, 2026