Earth & Environment
Beneath the Sahara sits an ocean's worth of ancient groundwater that fell as rain during a green and forested age tens of thousands of…
Jul 16, 2026
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Space
Earth’s atmosphere does not end where space begins—it stretches beyond the Moon, meaning lunar astronauts were technically still inside it
Jul 16, 2026
Life
A 2015 study linked longer mutual gaze in some dog-owner pairs with higher urinary oxytocin
Jul 16, 2026
Earth & Environment
For decades the heavy rocks crossing Death Valley were never seen moving, until cameras caught them gliding across the lakebed on thin…
Jul 16, 2026
Life
Scientists discovered that ordinary air filters can capture DNA floating through the atmosphere, identifying nearby wildlife, viruses and…
Jul 15, 2026
Physics
Two billion years ago a uranium deposit in Gabon switched itself on as a natural nuclear reactor, operating in pulses as groundwater boiled…
Jul 15, 2026
Earth & Environment
The Aztecs built an agricultural system capable of producing repeated harvests without synthetic fertilizer, feeding a city of hundreds of…
Jul 15, 2026
Technology
Roman marine concrete can become stronger through interactions with seawater, helping explain why ancient harbour structures survived…
Jul 15, 2026
Earth & Environment
The ocean produces roughly half the oxygen released on Earth through microscopic organisms most people will never see, while rainforests…
Jul 15, 2026
Life
A three-millimetre jellyfish found in oceans worldwide can reverse its own life cycle when injured or starving, melting back into its…
Jul 15, 2026
Space
The engineers who built Voyager knew they would almost certainly be dead before it left the solar system, and they built it anyway, a gift…
Jul 15, 2026
Technology
A 1948 IBM computer with no memory at all, fed by punchcards and programmed by physically rewiring its panels, was still doing the…
Jul 15, 2026
Life
A shark that lives in the freezing Arctic can survive for roughly 400 years and does not reach adulthood until around 150
Jul 15, 2026
Earth & Environment
A cotton T-shirt has an estimated water footprint of about 2,700 litres, including rainwater, irrigation water and pollution-dilution water
Jul 15, 2026