Life
When researchers paired a human scent with the mechanical shock of a swat, female Aedes mosquitoes learned to avoid that individual odour…
Jul 17, 2026
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Life
Ostriches do not bury their heads in sand — they would suffocate
By Mal James · Jul 17, 2026
Life
Wombats are the only known animals that produce cube-shaped faeces, and researchers found the corners are not carved at the exit but…
Jul 17, 2026
Social Sciences
I'm WEIRD, it turns out, and so is almost everyone psychology has ever studied
By Nato Lagidze · Jul 17, 2026
Earth & Environment
Blue zones promised the secret to living past 100. Its famous debunking is being disputed too
Jul 17, 2026
Life
A dog year is not seven human years: dogs age fastest when young, so a one-year-old is more like a teenager than a seven-year-old, and a…
By Mal James · Jul 17, 2026
Social Sciences
Summer is not warm because Earth nears the Sun — in truth we sit closest to it every January
By Mal James · Jul 17, 2026
Science
Some compulsions can look like discipline from the outside, which can obscure the distress involved
Jul 16, 2026
Technology
Internal Facebook documents showed that the platform once weighted every reaction emoji five times more heavily than Likes
Jul 16, 2026
Technology
$7 billion in six months: how K-beauty outsold the United States to become the world's second-biggest beauty exporter
By Kiran Journals · Jul 16, 2026
Earth & Environment
The oldest water on Earth has been isolated for 2 billion years beneath a Canadian mine
By Kiran Journals · Jul 16, 2026
Science
The Great Pyramid of Giza is described as one of the world's oldest landmarks, but it was already more than a thousand years old by the…
Jul 16, 2026
Science
Deep-sea nodules in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone contain metal tonnages that may exceed estimated terrestrial reserves for several metals…
Jul 16, 2026
Life
A fish believed to have died out with the dinosaurs was pulled up alive in a net, a living fossil that had been quietly surviving in the…
Jul 16, 2026