Earth & Environment
A research centre in the Netherlands pipes human urine from office toilets into bacteria-filled cells that turn the waste into electricity…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Sep 8, 2026
2026
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Space
NASA's Genesis capsule crashed in Utah, but scientists salvaged its solar wind samples
By The Long View · Sep 8, 2026
Earth & Environment
A power station in Kenya runs almost entirely on steam drawn from beneath the East African Rift, where volcanic heat turns the ground…
By Daniel Moran · Sep 8, 2026
Earth & Environment
Carl Sagan's decade-long fight got Voyager 1 to photograph Earth as a pale blue pixel
By The Long View · Sep 8, 2026
Life
Scientists formally name loud Ecuadorian frog after 24 million years of hidden identity
By Natural History · Sep 8, 2026
Earth & Environment
A ribbon of black slime longer than a blue whale secretes paralyzing neurotoxin
By Natural History · Sep 8, 2026
Earth & Environment
Mussels survive nine-metre North Sea storm in experimental wind farm trial
By The Long View · Sep 8, 2026
Life
Cattle showed strong preference for women over men in cuddling study
By Daniel Moran · Sep 8, 2026
Science
Professor shrunk half an inch after 100 days underwater in pressurized habitat
By Daniel Moran · Sep 8, 2026
Life
Cicadas stuck to a 1930 forest map, ignoring regrown Iowa woodland today
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Sep 8, 2026
Science
Scientists built the first nuclear reactor under a Chicago stadium with only an axe as backup
By Daniel Moran · Sep 8, 2026
Life
Ancient fossils suggest human ancestry split far earlier than scientists believed
By Daniel Moran · Sep 8, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Pretending to be someone else drains your mental resources measurably
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Sep 8, 2026
Life
Humpback whales synchronize their songs to every phase of their dives
By Daniel Moran · Sep 8, 2026