Earth & Environment
Australia's strange 'fairy circles' may mark buried hydrogen, and that could matter for clean energy
Aug 30, 2026
2026
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Social Sciences
Researchers who followed 1,004 Dutch retirees found that those who had climbed steeply in their careers were less likely to miss their old…
Aug 30, 2026
Life
Humans are the only great ape known to have uniformly white sclera, making every shift of the eyes unusually easy to follow
Aug 30, 2026
Earth & Environment
A single cotton T-shirt can have a water footprint of roughly 2,500 litres
By Daniel Moran · Aug 30, 2026
Life
When an Antarctic iceberg the size of Chicago broke off in January 2025, scientists raced to look beneath it and found a thriving ecosystem…
Aug 30, 2026
Technology
A $200 ChatGPT Pro subscription could represent as much as $14,000 a month in equivalent API-priced usage if pushed to its limits…
Aug 30, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Thought of the day from Greek philosopher Epicurus: "We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness"
Aug 30, 2026
Life
Scientists analysed 11.8 million locations from 4,581 animals across the United States and found that wildlife responds not only to the…
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 30, 2026
Technology
Humans are still cheaper than AI for most work involving tasks that computer vision could technically automate, MIT researchers found
Aug 29, 2026
Space
Enceladus looks nothing like a habitable world
Aug 29, 2026
Technology
Many AI reasoning models burn through long chains of intermediate tokens before answering
Aug 29, 2026
Life
Why 34 of 38 crickets in a dark glass tube walked away from a synthetic copy of one terpene found in a bat's snout secretions, and why the…
Aug 29, 2026
Space
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope launched on August 30 carrying a mirror the same 2.4-metre diameter as Hubble’s
Aug 29, 2026
Brain & Behavior
The ten-thousand-hour study was redone with thirty-nine violinists under double-blind conditions, and the group rated merely good had…
Aug 29, 2026