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Wild African elephants appear to call each other by individual names, after researchers who recorded hundreds of rumbling calls in Kenya…
By Brendan Brown · Aug 15, 2026
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Brain & Behavior
Cutting the jargon is not about dumbing down
Aug 15, 2026
Life
A Norwegian cave yielded 75,000-year-old polar bear, walrus and bowhead-whale bones, plus the first collared-lemming remains reported from…
Aug 15, 2026
Earth & Environment
A 300-megawatt nuclear reactor running flat-out produces about 2.6 terawatt-hours a year
Aug 15, 2026
Health
The most useful exercise advice after 60 is not about doing more of one thing
Aug 15, 2026
Life
A kangaroo joey is born after barely a month in the womb, weighing less than a gram and roughly the size of a jellybean
Aug 15, 2026
Brain & Behavior
The saying that social media leaves you defined by your choices is half right
Aug 15, 2026
Space
Einstein added a cosmological constant to his equations in 1917, later regarded it as one of his great mistakes, and physicists resurrected…
Aug 15, 2026
Brain & Behavior
The signs said to prove you have no life outside work really describe an identity built on a single pillar, and research on self-complexity…
Aug 15, 2026
Physics
Quantum entanglement was supposed to need precisely controlled laser light
Aug 15, 2026
Space
Scientists thought Titan was hiding a global ocean beneath its frozen crust
Aug 15, 2026
Technology
Microsoft's AI diagnostic system correctly solved up to 85.5% of 304 exceptionally difficult medical cases adapted from the New England…
Aug 14, 2026
Social Sciences
In 1984, peat cutters in Cheshire hit something rubbery with a mechanical shovel and pulled up a man who had been strangled, struck on the…
Aug 14, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Why people revisit old messages: digital records can help test and reconstruct autobiographical memories
Aug 14, 2026