Longer essays and features from Science Blog. Pieces here go through additional research and review.
Two experienced adult musicians reached a full 12-note absolute-pitch benchmark after intensive training, while the wider group showed smaller and uneven gains.
Aug 28, 2026
The ISS crosses Earth’s shadow roughly once per 90-minute orbit. The familiar 16 sunrises is a rounded daily average shaped by altitude, velocity and solar geometry.
Aug 28, 2026
The friendship recession crept up so gradually that most people never noticed they were becoming lonelier—until looking back revealed a chasm.
By Nato Lagidze · Aug 28, 2026
A 2026 review argues that warming, nutrient pollution and slow water renewal are pushing aquatic oxygen toward unsafe change, while stressing that no formal global threshold exists.
Aug 28, 2026
A satellite-and-well reconstruction finds groundwater losses concentrated in heavily irrigated downstream basins, while a temporary influx of meltwater complicates the outlook.
Aug 27, 2026
In an uncontrolled study of 18 sedentary women, a 1.4-year reduction appeared only in the eight-person subgroup with higher baseline epigenetic age acceleration.
Aug 27, 2026
Beneath the viral romance of penguin pebbles lies a grimmer truth: in the Antarctic, every stone is contested territory, and nest-building becomes a brutal game of theft and retaliation.
Aug 27, 2026
Chronic inhibition of two median raphe neuron populations cut mouse NREM sleep by nearly 70%, but one in six treated animals died and the memory result came from one fear-conditioning task.
Aug 26, 2026
Fendouzhe mapped patchy, fault-fed seep communities from 5,800 to 9,533 meters, with microbes converting methane and sulfide chemistry into animal biomass.
Aug 26, 2026
