Editorial Team
Scientists kept dead eyes responding to light for ten hours — but only in pigs, so far.
Jul 17, 2026
The 420-tonne International Space Station sinks about 100 meters a day through the thin upper atmosphere, and only a Russian thruster firing roughly once a month keeps it from a fiery reentry.
Jul 17, 2026
Plants and animals do not synthesise vitamin B12. Reliable dietary B12 originates with bacteria and archaea, then moves through food webs or industrial fermentation.
Jul 17, 2026
Skeletal muscle stores only enough ATP for about two seconds of maximal effort. A phosphocreatine reservoir held at roughly 120 mmol/kg of dry muscle is what keeps a sprint going for the next eight to ten seconds — and why the most-studied supplement in sports science works the way it does.
Jul 17, 2026
A rapid Imperial College London and Met Office analysis estimated roughly 2,700 heat-related deaths across two heatwaves. Housing can increase exposure and vulnerability, but it is not a substitute cause for extreme heat.
Jul 17, 2026
Taff and colleagues analysed long-term records from 123 tree-swallow populations and found that climate effects differed across latitude.
Jul 17, 2026
On 29 April 2020, a single stroke of lightning stretched 768 kilometres across Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi in one continuous 7.39-second flash — the world record, confirmed by satellite.
Jul 17, 2026
In January 1665, Robert Hooke peered through a leather-covered microscope at a shaving of cork, saw thousands of empty compartments that reminded him of monks' sleeping chambers, and coined a word that has organised biology ever since.
Jul 17, 2026
For nearly four years in a leaky Paris shed, Marie and Pierre Curie boiled down eight tonnes of pitchblende to extract a tenth of a gram of radium chloride — and the notebooks she kept during that work are still radioactive enough that the Bibliothèque nationale stores them in lead-lined boxes.
Jul 17, 2026
Between July and September 2017, researchers buried speakers along Boulder hiking trails to play recorded birdsong, then waited to see if hikers could tell the difference. Most, by the team's own account, could not.
Jul 17, 2026
The mosquito does not arrive as a simple machine. A female Aedes mosquito is drawn by carbon dioxide, skin odours, warmth, moisture and visual cues, but the final choice of whom to bite can also be shaped by experience.
Jul 17, 2026
For twenty years, Blue Zones were sold as the secret to living past 100. The viral rebuttal calling it pension fraud was never peer-reviewed — and now faces pushback of its own.
Jul 17, 2026
OCD is not ordinary tidiness or conscientiousness. Some compulsions may look productive from the outside while remaining distressing to the person experiencing them.
Jul 16, 2026
Beginning in 2017, Facebook's ranking algorithm treated a reaction emoji as five times more valuable than a Like.
Jul 16, 2026
