Earth & Environment
The US Army made sarin and napalm on 17,000 acres outside Denver, and when biologists surveyed the fenced buffer land in 1986 they found a…
By Brendan Brown · Aug 26, 2026
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Earth & Environment
Sea level is climbing faster in southern England partly because land in Scotland is rising
Aug 26, 2026
Health
Sweden ran the health records of 3.4 million adults against its national dog registry for twelve years and found single people who owned a…
By Brendan Brown · Aug 26, 2026
Earth & Environment
Researchers counting sheep under American solar farms as of October 2024 found 113,050 animals already grazing 129,261 acres on 506 sites…
By Brendan Brown · Aug 26, 2026
Brain & Behavior
A three-year online study involving 3,966 adults aged 19 to 94 found that a composite measure of cognitive clarity, emotional wellbeing and…
Aug 26, 2026
Technology
Antibiotic resistance directly kills more than a million people annually, while antibiotic discovery has stagnated
Aug 26, 2026
Social Sciences
Researchers surveyed 393 mothers and found nearly nine in ten felt solely responsible for organising the family's schedule, and 65 per cent…
Aug 26, 2026
Space
In her 1925 Radcliffe thesis, Cecilia Payne calculated that stars are overwhelmingly hydrogen and helium
Aug 26, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Finland has now ranked as the world’s happiest country for nine consecutive years, and Oxford-led researchers say its success reflects more…
Aug 26, 2026
Earth & Environment
The 2004 earthquake lifted parts of North Sentinel Island by an estimated one to two metres and exposed its surrounding coral reef
Aug 25, 2026
Life
The Greenland shark may live for nearly four centuries by doing almost everything slowly
By Daniel Moran · Aug 25, 2026
Brain & Behavior
In 1978, researchers interviewed 22 major lottery winners between one and 18 months after their wins and found that they reported no…
Aug 25, 2026
Life
Mammal ancestors were long assumed to lay eggs, until a growth ring inside the thigh bone of a 236-million-year-old Argentine cynodont put…
Aug 25, 2026
Health
Running uphill can demand more energy, but running back downhill can leave the muscles more damaged
Aug 25, 2026