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
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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
Earth & Environment
Lions had taken the family bull, so an 11-year-old in a Maasai homestead beside Nairobi National Park took apart his mother's radio, wired…
By Brendan Brown · Sep 1, 2026
Technology
At 458 metres long and drawing nearly 25 metres of water when loaded, Seawise Giant was too enormous for the Suez and Panama canals—or even…
Sep 1, 2026
Earth & Environment
A 15-year-old in British Columbia built a flashlight powered entirely by the temperature difference between a human palm and the…
Sep 1, 2026
Life
The platypus hunts underwater with its eyes, ears and nostrils sealed, detecting the electrical fields produced by its prey’s muscles
Sep 1, 2026