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An accidental laboratory flood revealed that hibernating queen bumblebees can survive completely underwater for seven days
Aug 21, 2026
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Life
A radio backpack lighter than a raindrop is now riding on monarch butterflies
By Brendan Brown · Aug 21, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Primatologist Shirley Strum has spent more than fifty years following the same olive baboons in Kenya, and what she found was not a…
Aug 21, 2026
Brain & Behavior
For 28 minutes, Jakarta air traffic control called the cockpit of an Airbus A320 and received no answer
By Brendan Brown · Aug 21, 2026
Earth & Environment
The mantis shrimp punches with the acceleration of a .22 calibre bullet, creating a cavitation bubble that collapses at nearly the…
Aug 21, 2026
Life
What looks like a healthy tree standing alone after its neighbour was removed is often a tree in slow crisis
Aug 21, 2026
Earth & Environment
The worst mass extinction in Earth's history struck 252 million years ago, before dinosaurs had even appeared
Aug 21, 2026
Social Sciences
Canopy-penetrating laser scans along 4,430 kilometres of flight lines over Acre and Amazonas found 432 earthworks where only 36 had been…
Aug 21, 2026
Space
Astronomers have confirmed a super-Earth in the habitable zone of GJ 887
Aug 21, 2026
Life
Dimetrodon — the sail-backed predator routinely mistaken for a dinosaur — first appeared roughly 60 million years before the earliest…
Aug 21, 2026
Space
NASA's twin study found one modest thing
Aug 21, 2026
Earth & Environment
On 16 September 2023, seismometers on every continent began recording the same signal repeating every 92 seconds, and it continued for nine…
By Brendan Brown · Aug 21, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Researchers examining identical twins raised apart found that twins given very different educations differed by an average of 15 IQ points…
Aug 21, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Your brain has no dedicated decision-making centre
Aug 21, 2026