Technology
Light bulb that has burned since 1901 has outlasted three webcams watching it
What outlasts modern technology better than a century-old lightbulb? Three webcams, apparently.
Sep 25, 2026
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Earth & Environment
Since 2008, the Dutch city of Heerlen has used water in its flooded former coal mines to heat and cool homes, shops and offices
A Dutch city found an unexpected energy source 2,000 feet below the surface: the geothermal warmth trapped in flooded coal mines.
Sep 25, 2026
Social Sciences
Illinois rebranded invasive carp as "copi" to get Americans to eat it
A state's decades-long battle against an ecological crisis came down to one question: Could a rebrand and a chef's kiss make Americans hungry enough to save their waterways?
Sep 25, 2026
Technology
The world's first webcam spent a decade watching a coffee pot in a Cambridge lab
A mundane appliance in a British computer lab inadvertently launched the entire ecosystem of remote visual surveillance that now defines modern life.
Sep 24, 2026
Health
Your taste buds completely replace themselves roughly every ten days
Your tongue's sensory workforce turns over almost entirely every ten days, meaning the cells tasting your food today will be strangers by next week.
Sep 24, 2026
Life
Dogs align with Earth's magnetic field to defecate, but only when it's stable
Animals may sense Earth's magnetic field far more precisely than we realized—and act on it in ways both mundane and mysterious.
Sep 24, 2026
Technology
Cheese brine waste becomes Wisconsin's secret weapon against icy roads
A Wisconsin county found that dairy waste could solve a winter road problem—and cut salt use by a third in the process.
Sep 24, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Handwriting activates brain regions for speech and movement when recognizing letters
Your brain doesn't just recognize what your hand has written—it relives the act of writing it.
Sep 24, 2026
Health
Your brain mistakes relaxing muscles for the sensation of falling
Your nervous system may be sabotaging your sleep with an ancient survival reflex that mistakes relaxation for danger.
Sep 23, 2026
Technology
Researchers secretly put GPS trackers inside 205 old printers and monitors to see where America’s electronic waste really went
A hidden network of GPS trackers exposed the shadowy global journey of American electronic waste—and the recyclers who claim to dispose of it responsibly.
Sep 23, 2026
Space
Engineering student's $217.77 NASA tape purchase became a $1.82 million moonwalk recording
A broke engineering student's $217 surplus auction gamble became the most pristine record of the Apollo 11 moonwalk—one that NASA itself had destroyed.
Sep 23, 2026
Life
Octopuses hurled debris at each other 102 times in footage from an Australian bay
These eight-armed creatures are hurling debris at each other—and one even learned to dodge attacks before they happened.
Sep 23, 2026
Life
Guam drops poisoned mice from helicopters to kill invasive snakes
A tropical island wages an audacious chemical war against an invasive predator that has nearly silenced its forests, dropping thousands of poisoned mice from helicopters into the canopy each day.
Sep 23, 2026
Life
Tiger sharks with cameras revealed Earth's largest seagrass meadow
Satellites missed an underwater meadow the size of Great Britain—until scientists strapped cameras to apex predators and let them hunt.
Sep 23, 2026