Physics
Freezing the carbon disulfide inside the nominally 1.37 micrometre core of an optical fibre, by dipping 27.5 centimetres of it in liquid…
Sep 5, 2026
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Earth & Environment
Antarctica is Earth’s largest desert. Its high interior receives less than 50 millimetres of precipitation a year, almost entirely as…
Sep 5, 2026
Life
A female red kangaroo can support three offspring simultaneously
Sep 5, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Researchers monitored 32 people as they viewed a swimming pool, a tree in a parking lot and a sign above a busy street
Sep 5, 2026
Earth & Environment
Kyoto's cherry-blossom record stretches back to 812, and the earliest full-bloom date in all those centuries was March 27 in 1409 until the…
Sep 5, 2026
Health
Every breaking wave releases microscopic sea-spray aerosols carrying salts, marine bacteria and organic compounds into coastal air—and…
Sep 4, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Twin and family studies attribute 40 to 60 per cent of population differences in personality to genetics—but a Nature analysis of up to…
Sep 4, 2026
Earth & Environment
In 1905, the author of Peter Rabbit put her book royalties into Hill Top Farm in the Lake District, then bought Troutbeck Park in 1923 to…
Sep 4, 2026
Life
In 1932, Australia sent soldiers armed with machine guns to stop 20,000 emus tearing through wheat farms
Sep 4, 2026
Life
Farmers in Thailand were losing crops to hungry elephants, so they began replacing sugar cane and bananas with coffee
By Daniel Moran · Sep 4, 2026
Life
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
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