Life
The textbook reason insects never colonised the deep ocean is that water pressure would crush their airways
By Brendan Brown · Aug 22, 2026
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Earth & Environment
Americans throw away 50,000 mattresses every day, and what makes them a landfill nightmare isn't the foam or chemicals
By Brendan Brown · Aug 22, 2026
Brain & Behavior
A 2026 study has added to evidence that the gut microbiome may be linked to human cognition, finding genetic signatures associated with…
Aug 22, 2026
Life
A worm frozen in Siberian permafrost for 46,000 years
By Brendan Brown · Aug 22, 2026
Brain & Behavior
American men’s friendship circles shrank dramatically between 1990 and 2021
Aug 22, 2026
Earth & Environment
Humans have visually observed less than 0.001 percent of the deep ocean floor
Aug 22, 2026
Social Sciences
China's population peaked at about 1.41 billion in 2021 and the UN projects it will fall to about 633 million by 2100
Aug 22, 2026
Life
Researchers moved an artificial flower to the ceiling and watched bumblebees roll a ball underneath, climb onto it, and reach the reward
Aug 22, 2026
Physics
Start with one cent on day one and double it every day, and by day 30 you would have $5,368,709.12
Aug 22, 2026
Life
Reindeer rebuild the reflective tissue behind their eyes from gold in summer to deep blue in winter
Aug 22, 2026
Life
While a zebra finch sings, the two halves of its brain coordinate within a fraction of a millisecond
Aug 21, 2026
Earth & Environment
Researchers following 196 radio-tagged sea otters off California found that otters using rocks, shells and other objects as tools could…
Aug 21, 2026
Space
A laser array on Earth could one day push a gram-scale spacecraft to roughly 20% of the speed of light
Aug 21, 2026
Life
Young reef octopuses do not slap every fish that gets close
Aug 21, 2026