Science
The Houston Avenue Bridge over I-10, a 14-foot-3-inch 1965 span, had been struck 72 times by 23 October 2025, with TxDOT costs at…
Sep 1, 2026
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One Swedish family has sat at the centre of Ericsson, Electrolux, ABB and AstraZeneca for five generations, yet the Wallenbergs hold their…
By Brendan Brown · Sep 1, 2026
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In 1852 the Brooklyn Institute released eight pairs of house sparrows to eat the caterpillars stripping the borough's shade trees, and…
Sep 1, 2026
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Jellyfish took three of the six reactors at France's Gravelines nuclear plant offline this summer and cut a fourth to half power, as they…
By Brendan Brown · Aug 31, 2026
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On 22 June in a Wrocław terrarium a Komodo egg that had incubated for 202 days hatched a 34-centimetre lizard weighing 115 grams with no…
Aug 30, 2026
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Scientists drilling through Antarctic ice pulled up a core containing air bubbles trapped 800,000 years ago, before modern humans existed…
By Daniel Moran · Aug 29, 2026
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The Great Pyramid of Giza weighs roughly eighteen times as much as the Empire State Building
Aug 28, 2026
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All the gold ever mined in human history
Aug 28, 2026
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In 1991, two hikers in the Ötztal Alps found a body sticking out of the melting ice and assumed it was a recent climber, but the corpse…
Aug 19, 2026
Biology
Researchers found that people who spoke two or more languages developed dementia symptoms about 4.5 years later than those who spoke only…
By Daniel Moran · Aug 18, 2026
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When Friedrich Miescher isolated a strange phosphorus-rich substance from the pus-soaked bandages of wounded soldiers in a Tübingen…
Aug 16, 2026
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Roman concrete piers built two thousand years ago along the Mediterranean coast are stronger now than the day they were poured, because…
Aug 16, 2026
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In 1859, a geomagnetic storm now called the Carrington Event lit up auroras bright enough to read a newspaper by in the Caribbean, set…
Aug 16, 2026
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A coastal redwood named Hyperion stands 115.9 metres tall in a hidden fold of Redwood National Park, taller than the Statue of Liberty, and…
Aug 16, 2026