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
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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
Health
Reading before bed does help you sleep, but the surprising catch is what you read it on
Sep 2, 2026
Life
To count the tigers hiding in India's forests, researchers set out tens of thousands of hidden cameras and waited, and out of nearly 35…
By Kiran Journals · Sep 2, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Too old to learn something new? The evidence says otherwise, and the belief itself is part of the problem
Sep 2, 2026
Brain & Behavior
The habits manipulators disguise as kindness, and the one test that gives them away
Sep 2, 2026