Space
Every sight you have ever seen reached your eyes through an extraordinarily narrow band of electromagnetic radiation, roughly 380 to 700…
Sep 1, 2026
2026
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Earth & Environment
New York shut what had been the world’s largest landfill in 2001 after more than 150 million tons of waste had been buried at Fresh Kills
Sep 1, 2026
Life
In 2009, researchers in Japan placed five men individually inside a completely dark room and photographed them with a camera sensitive…
Sep 1, 2026
Life
Off Hervey Bay, a dolphin named Maserati surfaced carrying a fish-filled bailer shell, then dropped it to pursue the escaping prey
Aug 31, 2026
Life
A bowhead whale can live beyond 200 years and carries roughly a thousand times as many cells as a human, yet it is not highly cancer-prone
Aug 31, 2026
Life
A fanged “vampire deer” thought gone from West Bengal for nearly 70 years has appeared on a camera trap
By Daniel Moran · Aug 31, 2026
Earth & Environment
Scientists sent robots more than two kilometres beneath the Pacific and mapped enormous lava fields around an active volcano
By Daniel Moran · Aug 31, 2026
Life
A tiny turtle raised at a Massachusetts zoo was released into the wild in 2011 and disappeared from researchers for 12 years
Aug 31, 2026
Space
The $4.3 billion Roman Space Telescope was built around a mirror the U.S. intelligence community no longer needed
Aug 31, 2026
Earth & Environment
Wolves live at seven times the density inside Chernobyl's exclusion zone as in the uncontaminated nature reserves nearby, and elk, deer and…
Aug 31, 2026
Technology
A 14-year-old in Kerala sketched a washing machine around a bicycle chain because the river was costing her her homework hours
By Brendan Brown · Aug 31, 2026
Technology
Meta is reportedly testing robots inside its data centres that can swap networking cables and restart servers—and one worker estimates a…
Aug 31, 2026
Earth & Environment
Ivanpah's 173,500 mirrors focused enough Mojave sun on three towers to ignite birds in flight, as many as 6,000 a year by one estimate, and…
Aug 31, 2026
Science
Jellyfish took three of the six reactors at France's Gravelines nuclear plant offline this summer and cut a fourth to half power, as they…
By Brendan Brown · Aug 31, 2026