Science Blog Editorial Team

Space

A meteorite that fell near the Australian town of Murchison in 1969 was found to contain grains of stardust up to around 7 billion years old

A stone that fell from the sky over rural Victoria in 1969 turned out to contain something older than Earth, older than the Sun and older than every planet in the solar system.

Jul 14, 2026

Life

Crocodiles can lose limbs in territorial fights and still heal in bacteria-rich water with surprisingly little infection

A crocodile fight can be brutally physical. Adults bite, twist, tear and sometimes leave one another with deep wounds or missing limbs.

Jul 14, 2026

Space

After six months orbiting Earth, astronauts don't just describe seeing the planet differently

The strange thing about the overview effect is that many astronauts already know the story before they leave Earth.

Jul 14, 2026

Earth & Environment

The longest mountain range on Earth is almost entirely underwater

The longest mountain range on Earth is not the Andes, the Rockies or the Himalayas.

Jul 13, 2026

Earth & Environment

Beneath kilometres of Antarctic ice sits a lake the size of a small sea, sealed off from the sky for millions of years and possibly still…

Lake Vostok is one of the strangest lakes on Earth because, for most purposes, Earth has hidden it from itself.

Jul 13, 2026

Brain & Behavior

Prairie dogs do more than shout “hawk” or “human”

Prairie dogs are easy to underestimate because their alarm calls sound, to human ears, like small sharp barks.

Jul 13, 2026

Brain & Behavior

Assemble something yourself and you'll value it more than an identical item you didn't build

The object does not change just because you put it together. The table is still the same table, the box is still the same box, and the shelf still has the same wobble in the same corner.

Jul 13, 2026

Brain & Behavior

Doing small things that fill you with awe

Awe has a strange effect on the mind. It can arrive from something enormous, like a night sky or a mountain view, but it can also come from something brief: a…

Jul 13, 2026

Life

The 52-hertz whale has an unusual call, but scientists cannot tell whether it is alone or unanswered

Researchers have tracked a distinctive 52-hertz whale call for decades, but the recordings cannot establish whether the animal is socially isolated or whether other whales answer it.

Jul 13, 2026

Science

Two Asian mantis species just got Europe's harshest invasive label

Two large Asian praying mantis species have established breeding populations across parts of Europe.

Jul 13, 2026

Science

A Parkinson's-linked protein can spread from cell to cell, and Yale researchers found the two-protein complex that appears to help it get…

A protein associated with Parkinson's disease can move from one brain cell to another.

Jul 13, 2026

Life

We tend to think of lions as Africa’s ultimate killers, but a lone lion hunting in daylight succeeds in only about one chase in five, while…

The lion owns the human imagination in a way few predators ever have. It is the animal on shields and flags, the roar behind the idea of wild Africa, the creature we instinctively cast as the continent's final authority.

Jul 13, 2026

Technology

Methuselah is among the oldest confirmed living non-clonal trees, with rings dating to roughly 2833 BC

High in California's White Mountains, a Great Basin bristlecone pine called Methuselah has been laying down growth rings since roughly 2833 BC — making it a sapling three centuries before the Great Pyramid at Giza and, four and a half millennia later, still alive.

Jul 13, 2026

Social Sciences

The Basque language of the Pyrenees has no known living relative anywhere on Earth

On most maps, Basque looks like a regional language tucked into a small corner of western Europe.

Jul 13, 2026