Longer essays and features from Science Blog. Pieces here go through additional research and review.
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
Payne's 1925 calculation was right, but the familiar story misses why it looked wrong and how Russell's independent 1929 analysis both confirmed and explicitly credited her earlier result.
Sep 6, 2026
Ramanujan's 1913 letter looked implausible because it compressed deep mathematics into unsupported claims. Hardy's response mattered because suspicion led to examination rather than dismissal.
Sep 6, 2026
Roget's famous reference work grew from a private catalogue begun in 1805. Its long development, idea-first structure and continuing revisions make the real story richer than a simple retirement tale.
Sep 5, 2026
A Europe-wide habitat model suggests climate shifts moved Neanderthal refuges without erasing them, while weak links among some regions may have made small populations harder to rescue after local shocks.
Sep 5, 2026
Age-related molecular scores rose after emergency surgery, across pregnancy and during critical illness, then fell with recovery. The clocks are dynamic biomarkers, not proof that accumulated ageing was erased.
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 400-to-one coincidence is rounded, changeable and temporary. Its near-match hides the photosphere closely enough to expose the Sun's faint inner corona.
Sep 5, 2026
Creative experts had younger-looking functional-connectivity patterns, and a small controlled gaming experiment moved the same modelled measure. Neither result shows that biological ageing was reversed.
Sep 5, 2026
