Longer essays and features from Science Blog. Pieces here go through additional research and review.
Starship V3 leads on raw thrust, but Flight 14 may be the first test to convert that power into a sustained orbit. Rapid reuse remains a much more distant milestone.
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
An hour in 14°C water sharply raised catecholamines in blood, but the experiment did not measure brain dopamine, euphoria or a two-hour post-plunge effect.
Sep 4, 2026
Breaks can reduce fatigue and sometimes protect attention, but sleep cycles and deliberate-practice research do not prescribe one fixed 90/20 maintenance schedule for every waking brain.
Sep 4, 2026
Saturn would span roughly eleven lunar widths from Titan's Saturn-facing side and remain in one part of the sky, although libration, haze and orbital evolution complicate the picture.
Sep 3, 2026
On August 19, 2026, the IRS opened a new Office of Conservation Easements and ended a uniform settlement program that had run only 98 days. A look at what the shift changes, and what it does not.
Sep 3, 2026
At 8:40 in the morning on 26 August, the automatic gauge on the Bhote Kosi at Nepal's border with China reported the river at 1.62 metres.
Sep 3, 2026
The Gakkel Ridge is the slowest spreading mid ocean ridge on Earth, and the new reading suggests its melt reaches the surface in bursts rather than in a continuous supply.
Sep 3, 2026
A ten-country study found that facial averageness, not symmetry by itself, consistently predicted attractiveness ratings once overlapping shape features were modelled together.
Sep 3, 2026
