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Americans ranked third and fourth in the world for men's and women's height a century ago, but a study of 18.6 million adults in 200…
By Mal James · Aug 13, 2026
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In 2025, scientists announced they'd finally solved the boiled egg
By Brendan Brown · Aug 11, 2026
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About a quarter of the Netherlands now sits below sea level, and the obvious explanation is that the sea rose
Aug 11, 2026
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In 1802, a despairing Beethoven wrote a letter asking that after his death, doctors describe his illness to the world so people would…
By Brendan Brown · Aug 11, 2026
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A dinosaur skull dug up with a Tyrannosaurus tooth still embedded in its face has given scientists something almost impossibly rare
By Brendan Brown · Aug 9, 2026
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In 1890, a German chemist named August Kekulé told a room of admirers he had dreamed of a snake biting its own tail and woken up knowing…
Aug 6, 2026
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In 1868, a French astronomer studying a solar eclipse from India spotted a yellow spectral line at 587 nanometres that matched no element…
Aug 4, 2026
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"Lightning never strikes the same place twice" is a comforting saying and a completely false one
By Daniel Moran · Aug 3, 2026
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UC Riverside physicists show thermal cameras could boost LIGO sensitivity by up to 31% and increase its neutron-star detection range by…
Aug 3, 2026
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The Antikythera mechanism recovered from a Roman shipwreck in 1901 turned out to be a hand-cranked bronze computer that could predict…
By Brendan Brown · Aug 3, 2026
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Muon g-2 calculations match Fermilab but clash with four decades of collider data
Jul 30, 2026
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You are measurably taller when you wake than when you go to bed, and lose it again by nightfall
By Mal James · Jul 22, 2026
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The Great Barrier Reef isn't dying solely from heat the way many assume
Jul 22, 2026
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A paleontologist noticed the dirt inside a fossil rodent's empty tooth sockets was smoother than sediment should ever be
Jul 21, 2026