Life
The 52-hertz whale has an unusual call, but scientists cannot tell whether it is alone or unanswered
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 13, 2026
2026
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Science
Two Asian mantis species just got Europe's harshest invasive label
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 13, 2026
Science
A Parkinson's-linked protein can spread from cell to cell, and Yale researchers found the two-protein complex that appears to help it get…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 13, 2026
Life
We tend to think of lions as Africa’s ultimate killers, but a lone lion hunting in daylight succeeds in only about one chase in five, while…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 13, 2026
Technology
Methuselah is among the oldest confirmed living non-clonal trees, with rings dating to roughly 2833 BC
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 13, 2026
Social Sciences
The Basque language of the Pyrenees has no known living relative anywhere on Earth
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 13, 2026
Earth & Environment
The Late Ordovician extinction 443 million years ago struck in two pulses driven by opposite climate extremes
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 13, 2026
Earth & Environment
A high-altitude Pyrenees cave records recurrent use from the early fifth millennium BC, including 23 hearths and probably malachite…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 13, 2026
Earth & Environment
About 60 wild Wollemi pines survive in closely guarded canyon sites after the species was rediscovered in 1994
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 13, 2026
Brain & Behavior
In the late 1960s, Walter Mischel and his colleagues at Stanford offered preschoolers a choice between one treat immediately or a larger…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 13, 2026
Brain & Behavior
In 2023, roughly one in four American adults reported eating every meal alone on the previous day
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 13, 2026
Space
A spacecraft called DART was deliberately crashed into an asteroid in 2022 to test whether humanity could deflect one, and it worked
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 13, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Marine biologist Wallace J. Nichols spent roughly a decade interviewing surfers, sailors, swimmers, scientists and others about their…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 13, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Small studies have found lower short-term stress markers after forest walks, but lasting effects remain uncertain
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Jul 12, 2026