Editorial Team
Private gardens, arable fields, permanent grassland and lawns each took delivery of the same object in 2021: standardised white organic cotton briefs, to be buried eight centimetres down with the waistband left showing above the surface.
Sep 7, 2026
A simple wardrobe change revealed a blind spot in predators: birds evolved to spot danger, but mammals didn't.
Sep 7, 2026
Black vultures nested within a metre or two of two different predatory raptors in Argentina.
Sep 6, 2026
Researchers at the University of Parma's dog ethology laboratory recruited 38 dogs for a study published in Royal Society Open Science.
Sep 6, 2026
Instead of demolishing Shanghai's 85-year-old school, engineers gave it mechanical legs and walked it 62 meters across town, rotating the 7,600-ton structure like a chess piece into its new position.
Sep 5, 2026
The dark features were photographed in 2015; this is the first published attempt the authors know of to read them as liquid flowing in the modern epoch.
Sep 5, 2026
The tracking shows Mars deforming in a way a uniform planet should not, and the least strained explanation is a hemisphere of mantle that something is still keeping warm.
Sep 5, 2026
Light travelling down a glass fibre does not pass through the glass without touching it.
Sep 5, 2026
When the Australian military declared war on emus in 1932, they didn't expect to lose.
Sep 4, 2026
Two of nine specimens catalogued as ambergris did not yield the marker compound the chemical tests look for, and one of the two held the highest DNA concentration in the study while returning no detectable sperm whale DNA on either genetic marker.
Sep 4, 2026
The Stoic's promise isn't what Instagram thinks it is: the hardest path to greatness also offers an escape from the metrics that define ordinary ambition.
Sep 4, 2026
The result held on one device and did not reach significance on the other, and the paper's own summaries carry that result further than its statistics do.
Sep 4, 2026
The comparison used precision fMRI, which maps each person's own language regions before measuring anything, and it cannot follow a single person as they actually age.
Sep 4, 2026
A century of service: how one woman became America's oldest active park ranger, and why her work mattered most after she turned 80.
Sep 4, 2026
