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
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Life
Western disgust at eating insects may have roots deeper than culture
Aug 31, 2026
Brain & Behavior
The psychology of over-apologizing: what genuinely happy people have stopped saying sorry for, and why
Aug 31, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Does wealth make you better? The research says it depends entirely on what you do with it
Aug 31, 2026
Life
In 2007, researchers exposed dehydrated tardigrades—eight-legged animals less than a millimetre long—to the vacuum of space for ten days
Aug 31, 2026
Life
Island mammals don’t just slowly drift from their mainland relatives over millions of years
Aug 30, 2026
Technology
Private AI investment in the United States reached $285.9 billion in 2025—23 times China’s $12.4 billion—yet by March 2026, the countries’…
Aug 30, 2026
Technology
University of Tokyo researchers dried, powdered and heat-pressed food scraps including banana peels, orange rinds and cabbage leaves into…
Aug 30, 2026
Science
On 22 June in a Wrocław terrarium a Komodo egg that had incubated for 202 days hatched a 34-centimetre lizard weighing 115 grams with no…
Aug 30, 2026
Earth & Environment
Discarded PET bottles and corn stalks went through a 32-step heat-and-oxygen breakdown in Carbondale, then yeasts rebuilt the carbon as…
Aug 30, 2026
Earth & Environment
On August 4, 2026, a 76-square-kilometre section of Greenland’s Petermann Glacier—roughly the size of Manhattan and up to 150 metres…
Aug 30, 2026
Technology
Dario Amodei’s thought experiment for 2027
Aug 30, 2026
Earth & Environment
An 86-year-old Pennsylvania farmer rejected roughly $15.7 million
Aug 30, 2026
Life
Scientists once thought zebra stripes might help confuse predators, but when researchers dressed horses in zebra-striped coats, biting…
By Daniel Moran · Aug 30, 2026