Earth & Environment
Engineers bolted ultrasonic speakers to turbines at a Pennsylvania wind farm and searched the ground beneath them every day for two…
By Brendan Brown · Aug 24, 2026
2026
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Health
South Korean women are projected to become the first national population in history with an average life expectancy above 90. An Imperial…
Aug 24, 2026
Health
Older adults following earlier meal schedules had a 10-year survival rate of 89.5%, compared with 86.7% among later eaters—but Harvard and…
Aug 24, 2026
Life
The mantis shrimp is routinely described as seeing millions more colours than humans, but a 2014 Science study found something stranger
Aug 23, 2026
Life
An octopus has three hearts, but during jet-propelled swimming its main systemic heart can briefly stop—the pressure inside its mantle…
Aug 23, 2026
Space
Astronomers discovered a comet passing through our solar system in July 2025 carrying organic molecules formed in a distant star system—the…
Aug 23, 2026
Life
A kangaroo hopping at high speed can use dramatically less energy than a four-legged mammal of the same size running at the same pace
Aug 23, 2026
Life
Genomic research published in 2026 revealed that koalas suffered a severe population collapse beginning about 100,000 years ago—before…
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 23, 2026
Life
A marine worm with no mouth and no gut makes its own enzyme for digesting the bioplastic its skin bacteria build up, and the same kind of…
Aug 23, 2026
Brain & Behavior
A 2026 NBER working paper found evidence that employment losses driven by weak local labour markets accelerate cognitive decline among…
Aug 23, 2026
Uncategorized
A nuclear plant south of Miami found its first crocodile nest in its cooling canals in 1978, when Florida had fewer than 300 of the animals…
By Brendan Brown · Aug 23, 2026
Earth & Environment
Texas ranchers now run sheep across roughly 68,000 acres of solar farms, more than half the American solar-grazing map, because goats climb…
By Brendan Brown · Aug 23, 2026
Brain & Behavior
The idea that we most regret the things we never did is genuinely backed by research, with two refinements the slogan misses
Aug 23, 2026
Brain & Behavior
The brain keeps its power to learn and adapt for as long as you live, but that capacity is responsive
Aug 23, 2026