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An unknown human lineage interbred with our ancestors in Africa more than 50,000 years ago
Sep 1, 2026
September 2026
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Brain & Behavior
Adults aged 40 and older completed an executive-function test 12% faster after running a HEPA air purifier at home for one month…
Sep 1, 2026
Earth & Environment
The only way rescuers could get 12 boys and their coach out of a flooded Thai cave was to sedate them first
Sep 1, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Delaware dropped 714 retired New York subway cars into the Atlantic 16 miles offshore
By Daniel Moran · Sep 1, 2026
Earth & Environment
An 8,500-year-old ornament carved by hand from a scallop shell was found deep inland in California, hundreds of miles from where the shell…
By Daniel Moran · Sep 1, 2026
Life
Twenty-one fossil footprints at GaJi10 on Kenya’s Lake Turkana record eight Paranthropus boisei crossing the same muddy shore 1.43 million…
Sep 1, 2026
Life
In the 1880s, Hawaii’s sugar industry introduced mongooses to the islands to kill rats in cane fields, but the effort largely failed…
Sep 1, 2026
Science
The Houston Avenue Bridge over I-10, a 14-foot-3-inch 1965 span, had been struck 72 times by 23 October 2025, with TxDOT costs at…
Sep 1, 2026
Social Sciences
An 11-year-old in Colorado who had been following the Flint water crisis built a prototype lead detector using carbon nanotubes, an Arduino…
Sep 1, 2026
Life
Between April 2025 and March 2026, the Ocean Census network documented 1,121 marine species thought to be new to science—enough, the…
Sep 1, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Charles Darwin reserved roughly four hours a day for concentrated study and often declared, “I’ve done a good day’s work,” by noon
Sep 1, 2026
Life
A biologist banded a Laysan albatross on Midway Atoll in December 1956, and the same bird, Wisdom, was still returning to the colony and…
Sep 1, 2026
Science
One Swedish family has sat at the centre of Ericsson, Electrolux, ABB and AstraZeneca for five generations, yet the Wallenbergs hold their…
By Brendan Brown · Sep 1, 2026
Science
In 1852 the Brooklyn Institute released eight pairs of house sparrows to eat the caterpillars stripping the borough's shade trees, and…
Sep 1, 2026