Space
For decades, scientists believed Titan hid a vast global ocean beneath its frozen crust
Aug 17, 2026
2026
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Earth & Environment
Earth's inner core has begun drifting backward relative to the surface after decades of moving slightly faster
Aug 17, 2026
Space
In December 2025, startup Starcloud trained the first large language model ever trained in orbit, using an NVIDIA H100
Aug 17, 2026
Earth & Environment
The Amazon is often called “the lungs of the Earth,” but a mature rainforest's net oxygen contribution is close to zero
Aug 17, 2026
Life
There is a ligament in the back of your neck that seems to be part of humanity's ancient running equipment
Aug 16, 2026
Space
More than 60 percent of all meteorites ever found on Earth came from Antarctica
Aug 16, 2026
Technology
At the bottom of the Black Sea, below about 150 metres, the water contains no oxygen at all, and shipwrecks preserved in that dead zone…
Aug 16, 2026
Science
When Friedrich Miescher isolated a strange phosphorus-rich substance from the pus-soaked bandages of wounded soldiers in a Tübingen…
Aug 16, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Being needed and being loved can feel similar, especially when family roles begin to change
Aug 16, 2026
Science
Roman concrete piers built two thousand years ago along the Mediterranean coast are stronger now than the day they were poured, because…
Aug 16, 2026
Brain & Behavior
People form judgments about a stranger’s trustworthiness and competence after seeing their face for just one-tenth of a second
Aug 16, 2026
Technology
We tend to picture the Sahara as an eternal desert, but sediment cores and cave paintings show that as recently as 6,000 years ago it was a…
Aug 16, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Quote by Viktor Frankl: Between stimulus and response there is a space, in that space is our power to choose our response, and in our…
Aug 16, 2026
Earth & Environment
We assume the deepest parts of the ocean are dark and empty, but the walls of the Mariana Trench hold snailfish drifting five miles down…
Aug 16, 2026