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July 2026
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Earth & Life
Since 1978, China has planted 66 billion trees to hold back two deserts, and the…
Human Behaviour
The Zeigarnik effect helps explain why unfinished goals can feel louder than…
Science & Engineering
You do not lose most body heat through your head
Space & Missions
For years astronomers kept finding rocky planets in habitable zones and then…
Space & Missions
On July 16, 2026, a Falcon 9 carried 21 more satellites into orbit for the…
Science & Engineering
A 2025 MIT-led study mapped 32,000 skills across 923 occupations and found current…
Earth & Life
When the Dutch ship Roggeveen anchored off Easter Island on Easter Sunday 1722, its…
Psychology
That adorable 'guilty look' your dog gives you is probably not guilt at all
Human Behaviour
A famous spotlight-effect experiment by Thomas Gilovich and colleagues found…
Science & Engineering
The ancient Greeks calculated the circumference of the Earth around 240 BCE, using…
Science & Engineering
A meteor shower named for a dragon once produced several thousand shooting stars an…
Earth & Life
A gray wolf's rear teeth can generate more than twice the bite force of a domestic…
Science & Engineering
The pistol shrimp snaps its claw so fast it creates a collapsing cavitation bubble…
Science & Engineering
Saudi Arabia’s NEOM is marketed as the city of the future, but it is being built on…
Human Behaviour