Physics
In 1925, 24-year-old graduate student Cecilia Payne calculated that the Sun and other stars were composed overwhelmingly of hydrogen and…
Sep 6, 2026
September 2026
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Physics
On 16 January 1913, an unknown accounts clerk at the Madras Port Trust mailed Cambridge mathematician G.H
Sep 6, 2026
Earth & Environment
A Brazilian couple took over a badly degraded former cattle farm and in 1998 founded an organisation to restore its Atlantic Forest
Sep 6, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Peter Mark Roget began privately arranging words by meaning in 1805, while still a young physician
Sep 5, 2026
Life
Neanderthals did not disappear simply because the climate turned cold or Homo sapiens defeated them—a 2026 Université de Montréal-led…
Sep 5, 2026
Health
One of ageing research’s most counterintuitive findings is that biological-age markers may not move steadily in one direction
Sep 5, 2026
Technology
A five-story school built in Shanghai in 1935 stood in the way of a new office complex, so engineers dug underneath it and fitted 198…
Sep 5, 2026
Space
The left lobe of Pluto's heart is a nitrogen ice sheet with no impact crater of any size in images down to about eighty metres per pixel…
Sep 5, 2026
Space
A total solar eclipse depends on an extraordinary coincidence
Sep 5, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Night owls have outscored early birds on some cognitive and creativity tests, yet morning types tend to earn better grades and report…
Sep 5, 2026
Technology
Used coffee grounds were charred at 350 degrees Celsius until they became a charcoal-like biochar
Sep 5, 2026
Brain & Behavior
A 2025 Nature Communications study drew on brain-activity data from 1,473 people across 13 countries and found that expert tango dancers…
Sep 5, 2026
Space
Scientists who read 16 years of radio tracking from three Mars orbiters say the mantle beneath the planet's southern highlands runs 200 to…
Sep 5, 2026
Earth & Environment
In 2026, John Boyer placed all 131 acres of his East Jordan, Michigan, farm into a conservation easement held by Little Traverse…
Sep 5, 2026