Longer essays and features from Science Blog. Pieces here go through additional research and review.
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
Natural-water swims were recalled more positively than open-air pool visits, with autonomy and competence accounting for the difference. The cross-sectional survey cannot show that the setting caused the lift.
Sep 5, 2026
Vesper bats possess two complete antibody heavy-chain gene loci on separate chromosomes. Both work, but their possible role in viral tolerance remains a hypothesis rather than a demonstrated cause.
Sep 5, 2026
Light travelling down a glass fibre does not pass through the glass without touching it.
Sep 5, 2026
Antarctica’s high plateau receives less than 50 millimetres of water-equivalent accumulation a year. Its immense ice sheet is the product of cold retention, compression, flow and deep time.
Sep 5, 2026
A red kangaroo can overlap three generations through embryonic diapause, prolonged pouch development and mammary glands that supply different milk to young of different ages.
Sep 5, 2026
A small outdoor experiment found lower average blood-pressure measurements while people viewed pool water. Its design removes ocean spray, but not every contextual difference between the three scenes.
Sep 5, 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 melted snack supplied a clue, but a patent, a team of engineers and two decades of miniaturisation turned microwave heating into an everyday appliance.
Sep 4, 2026
