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July 2026
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Science & Engineering
The Southern Delta Aquariids peak around July 30, but a nearly full Moon drowns all…
Science & Engineering
We tend to think Everest is the tallest mountain on Earth, but if you measure from…
Human Factors
Daniel Kahneman spent a lifetime studying judgment and distilled one warning into a…
Human Factors
Cats sleep between 12 and 16 hours a day not because they are lazy but because…
Universe
NASA's Webb telescope wasn't looking for a new planet around Beta Pictoris
Science & Engineering
Every Antarctic winter, male emperor penguins stand for more than two months in…
Culture
The man whose codebreaking may have helped to shorten the Second World War by two…
Psychology
A Yale psychologist asked 660 older adults in Ohio how they felt about growing…
Universe
A day on Venus is longer than its year — the planet turns so slowly, and backwards…
Human Factors
In Cantonese, changing the pitch of a single syllable can change a word's meaning…
Human Behaviour
South Korean women are projected to become the first population in recorded human…
Science & Engineering
A near-Earth asteroid tracked since 1998 turned up far from its predicted spot in…
Earth & Life
Wood frogs freeze solid every winter — up to 65% of their body water turns to ice…
Universe
How does a planet 4.5 billion kilometres from the Sun, where daylight is roughly…
Earth & Life