Earth & Environment
Sunlight reaches only the top 200 metres of the sea before the water swallows it, which means the overwhelming majority of the living space…
By Mal James · Jul 18, 2026
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Science
In April 1967, a Palo Alto history teacher named Ron Jones invented a classroom movement called The Third Wave and shut it down on day five…
Jul 18, 2026
Life
Spinach contains oxalate, which can contribute to calcium-oxalate kidney stones in susceptible people
Jul 18, 2026
Space
Astronauts lose roughly 1% of their bone mineral density every month in orbit
Jul 18, 2026
Earth & Environment
For 37 years researchers heated a patch of forest floor to see what climate change would do to the soil
Jul 18, 2026
Technology
Sardinian shepherds in the Ogliastra highlands carry a rare variant of the M26 Y-chromosome haplogroup found almost nowhere else on Earth…
Jul 18, 2026
Space
NASA just paid three private companies $600 million to land on the Moon four times in 2028
Jul 18, 2026
Technology
By the time 50 million had installed Meta's smart-glasses app, few knew what sat unused inside it
Jul 18, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Two thousand years on, Stoic philosopher Seneca's line still stings
By Mal James · Jul 18, 2026
Health
Nearly 7,000 Americans have now been sickened by a microscopic parasite hiding in fresh produce, and the vinegar soak or commercial…
Jul 18, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Rest and holidays, we assume, are what happiness is made of
By Mal James · Jul 18, 2026
Life
Around 70 years after they became absent, fourteen wolves rode into Yellowstone in crates in 1995 and ecologists are still fighting over…
By Mal James · Jul 17, 2026
Technology
Margaret Hamilton was 32 years old when her Apollo 11 flight software began throwing 1202 alarms during the lunar descent, and the…
Jul 17, 2026
Earth & Environment
The Mariana snailfish lives 8,000 metres down in water that would crush a submarine, and its skeleton is made mostly of cartilage flooded…
Jul 17, 2026