Longer essays and features from Science Blog. Pieces here go through additional research and review.
A Pennsylvania farmer kept his land and sold permanent development rights for $1.9 million after rejecting a reported $60,000-per-acre data-centre offer.
Aug 30, 2026
The carbon down there is Devonian. Some of the water arrived with the ice. The authors went looking for an earlier count of the fungi and could not find one.
Aug 30, 2026
A study of 53 wild chimpanzees found four ways that familiar calls combine, including order effects, while leaving listener comprehension to future tests.
Aug 30, 2026
MESSENGER mapped kilometres of collapse in Mercury’s chaotic terrain, supporting a buried volatile-rich layer while leaving its composition and habitability unresolved.
Aug 30, 2026
The financial system tasked with solving climate change is largely oriented toward perpetuating the economic model that created it.
By Jeanette Brown · Aug 30, 2026
A new evolutionary account treats adult emotional tears as an infant-derived distress signal, while experiments show support effects that are real but strongly context-dependent.
Aug 30, 2026
Humans are distinctive for uniformly pale exposed sclera, and experiments show a visibility advantage, but newer ape comparisons complicate the classic cooperative-eye story.
Aug 30, 2026
After A-84 moved away, ROV SuBastian documented an old Antarctic seafloor community, while leaving its exact age, food sources and species inventory unresolved.
Aug 30, 2026
Tracking data from 4,581 US animals show that human presence and built landscapes are distinct, interacting influences on wildlife space use.
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 30, 2026
