Life
Worker bees filtered 95 percent of a pesticide out of the food they stored on day two and only 86 percent by day ten, and in the same…
Aug 25, 2026
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Life
When pandemic traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge fell to levels not seen since the 1950s, San Francisco's white-crowned sparrows quickly…
Aug 25, 2026
Life
Dog owners were 31% less likely to die from cardiovascular causes than non-owners in a major analysis, according to the American Heart…
By Daniel Moran · Aug 25, 2026
Technology
Merck and Moderna announced on 19 August 2026 that a personalised mRNA cancer vaccine had succeeded in a Phase 3 trial
By Daniel Moran · Aug 25, 2026
Earth & Environment
Plants account for about 80 per cent of Earth's biomass measured as carbon, roughly 450 gigatonnes, while estimates suggest human land use…
Aug 25, 2026
Earth & Environment
In 2025, Earth’s oceans absorbed more heat than in any year since modern measurements began—an estimated 23 zettajoules, equivalent to…
Aug 25, 2026
Social Sciences
Australopithecus is not a single branch of the human family tree, a point its own field has long recognised, so why does a new paper argue…
Aug 25, 2026
Popular
Thought of the day from Stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius
Aug 25, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Across roughly 1,000 languages, those that pack more information into each word tend to move meaning faster but cover less ground in…
Aug 25, 2026
Brain & Behavior
The people you become friends with may already process the world like you do before either of you says hello
Aug 25, 2026
Earth & Environment
A coal seam beneath Australia's Burning Mountain has been smouldering for about 6,000 years
Aug 25, 2026
Life
Twenty years of feeding records found wild Bornean orangutans repeatedly combining plants with documented medicinal properties more often…
Aug 25, 2026
Earth & Environment
On 5 July 2024, Earth completed a rotation 1.66 milliseconds short of 86,400 seconds, the shortest day measured in the atomic-clock era…
Aug 25, 2026
Life
Researchers attached an artificial muscle to a real seal whisker and found why seals can hunt in complete darkness
Aug 25, 2026