Longer essays and features from Science Blog. Pieces here go through additional research and review.
A three-minute mother-calf sequence offers the first potential evidence that dolphin shelling can pass vertically, while falling far short of proof that the technique is culturally transmitted.
Aug 31, 2026
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope left Earth on August 30 aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy, beginning a three-month trip toward the Sun-Earth L2 region about one million miles away.
Aug 31, 2026
The reported robots range from button pressers to supervised cabling pilots. The 80 percent figure is one worker's conditional estimate, not a measured result or Meta staffing target.
Aug 31, 2026
Sparse insect DNA in ancient northern Eurasian dental calculus and 9,000-year-old chitinase patterns point to a deep ecological history without identifying a gene for disgust.
Aug 31, 2026
The 2007 TARDIS experiment showed that dehydrated, Sun-shielded water bears could endure ten days of space vacuum and reproduce after rehydration, while ultraviolet light set a hard limit.
Aug 31, 2026
Across 88 mammal species or lineages, island morphology changed fastest over shorter intervals. The 21-year minimum and a later methodological dispute define what the result can support.
Aug 30, 2026
Stanford counted a 23-to-one U.S. private AI investment lead but only a 39-point Arena gap. The figures measure different layers of the competition.
Aug 30, 2026
Sentinel-1 caught Petermann Glacier shedding a 76 km² ice island on 4 August, while two larger rift-bounded sections remain possible rather than scheduled future calvings.
Aug 30, 2026
Dario Amodei's 2027 scenario combines millions of superhuman AI copies with extreme speed. The numbers are a risk analogy, not a demonstrated data-centre capacity.
Aug 30, 2026
