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July 2026
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Science & Engineering
The Mediterranean dried out almost completely about 5.6 million years ago and sat…
Psychology
Standing under a huge night sky does something measurable to us, beyond a simple…
Science & Engineering
Cassini was deliberately flown into Saturn in September 2017 while still working…
Human Factors
Before John Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth, he made one unusual…
Science & Engineering
Every atom of oxygen in the air traces back to a catastrophe
Science & Engineering
Many scientists have won a Nobel Prize, but only one person ever pulled off what…
Science & Engineering
The Sahara sends roughly 27 million tonnes of dust across the Atlantic every year…
Science & Engineering
The electricity the world's data centres swallow may roughly double by 2030, to a…
Human Factors
At the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, a thousand metres down, lies a lake so lethal…
Human Behaviour
Thought of the day from Stoic philosopher Seneca
Universe
In 1995 astronomers aimed Hubble at a patch of sky so dark it seemed a waste of ten…
Human Behaviour
The human mind has no single prime age. Raw processing speed appears to peak around…
Earth & Life
Every owner knows the dog head-tilt, but which dogs do it most turns out to be…
Science & Engineering
There's a stretch of desert in Chile so dry that a single rain event turned up in…
Human Factors