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
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Life
Most people assume a dog explores the world by sight, as we do, yet it lives in a world built almost wholly of smell, sniffed in stereo…
By Mal James · Jul 17, 2026
Biomedical Sciences
A device called the Eye in a Care Box kept dead eyes responding to light for ten hours, but hasn't been tested in humans yet
Jul 17, 2026
Science
The International Space Station loses about 100 meters of altitude a day and must be shoved back up by a docked Russian thruster roughly…
Jul 17, 2026
Life
Plants do not synthesise vitamin B12; reliable dietary B12 originates with bacteria and archaea
Jul 17, 2026
Science
Skeletal muscle burns through its entire ATP supply in about two seconds of hard effort, and a backup molecule stored at roughly 120…
Jul 17, 2026
Science
England and Wales recorded about 2,700 heat-related deaths across two 2026 heatwaves, with housing increasing vulnerability
Jul 17, 2026
Science
Tree-swallow declines vary by latitude as warming and spring temperature swings disrupt breeding conditions
Jul 17, 2026
Space
In 2017, a single lightning bolt stretched an incredible 829 kilometres from Texas to Missouri, setting a mind-boggling world record for…
Jul 17, 2026
Space
You never see the Sun as it is, only as it was
By Mal James · Jul 17, 2026
Life
In 1665, Robert Hooke pressed a sliver of cork under his handmade microscope, saw thousands of tiny empty compartments that reminded him of…
Jul 17, 2026
Life
We tend to read a wagging tail as pure canine joy, but scientists who watched dogs closely suggest something subtler
By Mal James · Jul 17, 2026
Science
Marie Curie and her husband Pierre spent nearly four years boiling down seven tonnes of pitchblende in a leaky Paris shed with no…
Jul 17, 2026
Life
Scientists hid speakers along a third of a mile of hiking trail in Boulder, Colorado, to fake a richer birdsong chorus, and hikers who…
Jul 17, 2026