Earth & Environment
By 2030, global data centres are projected to carry a water footprint equal to the basic annual domestic needs of 1.3 billion people
Jul 15, 2026
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Life
In the final minutes of a deep-sea dive, scientists saw white clams and giant tube worms surrounding volcanic vents and realized they had…
Jul 15, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Why some people apologise when they are not at fault: what research on self-blame and conflict avoidance suggests
Jul 15, 2026
Space
When Ann Druyan’s heartbeat was recorded for the Voyager Golden Record, she had just fallen in love with Carl Sagan, meaning a private…
Jul 15, 2026
Technology
Google’s Willow quantum chip completed a benchmark in under five minutes that Google estimates would take a leading supercomputer 10…
Jul 14, 2026
Earth & Environment
We tend to think of the Sahara as the world's great permanent desert, but researchers have found it was a green savanna with hippos…
Jul 14, 2026
Health
Preliminary evidence suggests ADHD symptoms and perceived stimulant effectiveness can vary across the menstrual cycle
Jul 14, 2026
Earth & Environment
Chinampas were fixed raised wetland fields with canal irrigation, and complex rotations could yield up to seven harvests a year
Jul 14, 2026
Earth & Environment
A flame has burned inside a grotto behind a waterfall near Buffalo for generations, through rain and snow, and when geologists finally…
Jul 14, 2026
Social Sciences
South Korea had one of the poorest populations in the world after the Korean War, yet people born there today have among the longest life…
Jul 14, 2026
Space
In 1982, the Soviet Venera 13 lander transmitted for 127 minutes from Venus's surface, returning colour panoramas of basaltic terrain…
Jul 14, 2026
Life
Humans have roughly 10 times as many sweat glands per square inch as chimpanzees, yet a Duke study found our bodies turn over 30 to 50 per…
Jul 14, 2026
Health
We tend to think longevity is mostly written in your genes, but a landmark study of 2,872 Danish twin pairs found DNA explained only about…
Jul 14, 2026
Space
Voyager 1 launched in 1977 with onboard computers holding less memory than a single photo on a modern phone
Jul 14, 2026