Brain & Behavior
A Microsoft Research and Carnegie Mellon survey of 319 knowledge workers found that the more confidence people placed in AI’s ability to…
Sep 2, 2026
September 2026
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Life
A four-kilogram miniature dachshund survived 529 days alone on Kangaroo Island
By Daniel Moran · Sep 2, 2026
Life
Alligator blood can inhibit HIV and kill drug-resistant bacteria in laboratory tests
By Daniel Moran · Sep 2, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Thought of the day from Stoic philosopher Epictetus: "no man can rob us of our free will"
Sep 2, 2026
Social Sciences
Rome scoops roughly 1.5 million euros a year in coins out of one fountain and gives it to a charity that runs a food bank
Sep 2, 2026
Earth & Environment
A single gene on chromosome 7 of a wild tomato lets modern hybrids grow under 24-hour light and yield up to 20% more fruit
Sep 2, 2026
Life
An Iguanodon shinbone carries the first bone reaction to a skin ulcer yet reported in a dinosaur
Sep 2, 2026
Earth & Environment
Australia’s highest mountain rises just 2,228 metres—less than half the height of Mont Blanc—yet cold fronts sweeping north from the…
Sep 2, 2026
Earth & Environment
In 1972, Florida dumped somewhere between 1 million and 2 million old tires off Fort Lauderdale to build what was billed as the world's…
By Ainura Kalau · Sep 2, 2026
Earth & Environment
Since 2001, Delaware has sunk more than 700 retired New York City subway cars off its coast to build the Redbird Reef, and within a few…
By Ainura Kalau · Sep 2, 2026
Earth & Environment
Australia is the fastest-moving continent on Earth, shifting seven centimetres north-northeast each year—almost twice as fast as your…
Sep 2, 2026
Brain & Behavior
People who carry little regret share two habits: they decide by their values and forgive their own mistakes
Sep 2, 2026
Technology
A 14-year-old farm boy in Idaho came up with the idea for television in 1921 by imagining lines the way he ploughed a field, then sketched…
Sep 2, 2026
Social Sciences
Ancient cacao DNA has been recovered from two pottery fragments dug out of eleventh and twelfth century feasting pits at Etowah in Georgia…
Sep 2, 2026