Life
We picture fertilization as millions of sperm racing alone
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 21, 2026
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Earth & Environment
Perovskite solar cells began at just 3.8% efficiency in 2009. Seventeen years later, a perovskite-silicon tandem cell has hit a certified…
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 21, 2026
Health
The Mediterranean diet we know was effectively invented in 1958 by an American physiologist studying the island of Crete
Aug 21, 2026
Health
Researchers tracked 147,374 people for up to 30 years and found a striking strength-training sweet spot
Aug 21, 2026
Life
Pigeons were trained to tell a Monet from a Picasso, and then did something odder
Aug 21, 2026
Life
A lion’s roar can travel eight kilometres across open savanna, but it is not only a war cry
By Daniel Moran · Aug 20, 2026
Health
People who drink their coffee in the morning and then stop may be onto something
Aug 20, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Thought of the day from Stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius
Aug 20, 2026
Earth & Environment
Earth has already lived through five mass extinctions, each wiping out a huge share of the planet's species
By Daniel Moran · Aug 20, 2026
Life
For decades, the standard claim was that bacteria in your body outnumbered your own cells ten to one
Aug 20, 2026
Earth & Environment
In the 1980s the US Navy trained belugas to dive past a thousand feet through freezing water and find test torpedoes with no tracking…
Aug 20, 2026
Space
The fastest spacecraft ever built didn't set its record by firing a rocket engine
Aug 20, 2026
Health
The naked mole rat can live more than 40 years
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 20, 2026
Life
More than 10 million years ago, South America had saber-toothed mammals, terror birds and giant snakes
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 20, 2026