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Scientists looked inside a rock pellet smaller than a grain of rice and found a 445-million-year-old world preserved within it
By Daniel Moran · Sep 4, 2026
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Life
Nine museum specimens catalogued as ambergris had all passed the traditional hot needle test, and chemical profiling then found no ambrein…
Sep 4, 2026
Earth & Environment
The Eighth Circuit ruled that when a pipeline company exercises federal eminent domain power, federal law displaces North Dakota's statute…
Sep 4, 2026
Popular
Thought of the day from Stoic philosopher Seneca: "It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
Sep 4, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Small MRI studies have linked introversion with greater gray-matter volume or thickness in certain prefrontal regions involved in cognitive…
Sep 4, 2026
Life
Eight of ten blue-throated macaws slid a feeder door upward after watching another macaw do it, and not one of the five tested without a…
Sep 4, 2026
Technology
In 1945, Raytheon engineer Percy Spencer noticed a candy bar melting in his pocket while he worked near a radar magnetron
Sep 4, 2026
Space
SpaceX’s Starship V3 produces more thrust than Saturn V and SLS Block 1 combined
Sep 4, 2026
Health
In 2022, a 17-year-old built a $300 thought-controlled prosthetic arm
Sep 4, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Compared with younger adults, older adults' language networks showed no detectable difference in how closely they matched a normative…
Sep 4, 2026
Health
In a laboratory experiment, an hour-long immersion in 14°C water increased young men’s plasma noradrenaline by 530% and dopamine by 250%…
Sep 4, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Sustained concentration eventually produces fatigue, and deliberate breaks can restore energy and attention
Sep 4, 2026
Earth & Environment
In 2012, engineers in India's Gujarat state built one of the world's first solar arrays directly over an irrigation canal instead of on…
By Ainura Kalau · Sep 4, 2026
Social Sciences
A woman hired at 84 into a temporary National Park Service role in Richmond, California, became a permanent ranger at 89 and gave her last…
Sep 4, 2026