Human Behaviour
July 2026
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Science
The unsettling possibility raised by quantum gravity is that time may not be a basic ingredient of reality. It may be something that emerges only inside the universe, from entanglement, entropy, and relationships between physical systems — while the deeper quantum structure underneath may have no ticking clock at all.
Technology
Heavier reliance on AI correlates with weaker critical thinking and recall. One 2025 trial saw AI-assisted learners retain just 57.5% on a delayed test versus 68.5% for those who went without
Climate Science
Singapore has the highest green cover of any major city on Earth at 47 per cent, achieved through a deliberate six-decade urban forestry programme that began in 1967 when the country's founding Prime Minister decided that trees were essential infrastructure, and the country is now attempting to apply the same approach to food production, with substantially less success than the trees
Constellations
Scientists assumed every cave on Mars formed from ancient lava, but a team from Shenzhen University has now found eight that water carved through soluble rock — a process never before confirmed on the Red Planet
Tectonics
Around 640,000 years ago, the ground beneath Yellowstone blasted out more than 1,000 cubic kilometers of rock, then collapsed in on itself — carving the 45-by-85-km caldera that visitors still walk across today
Human Behaviour
Until June 2023, South Koreans counted age differently: a newborn was 1 at birth and everyone aged up each New Year's Day, so a baby born December 31 turned 'two' the next morning, until the country standardized to international age
Human Behaviour
Nearly 90 percent of homes in the United States have air conditioning, and in Europe, where summers are now warming twice as fast as the rest of the world, that number is closer to 20 percent
Science
The universe appears to be expanding faster than our current model predicts — and James Webb has now strengthened the case that the discrepancy is real, not just a flaw in Hubble’s measurements.
Science
When mountain lions began appearing more often on trail cameras at a small California nature preserve, coyotes and deer shifted away from nighttime activity, and the woody plants those deer used to eat increased sixty four fold
Science
The blue whale is bigger than any dinosaur science has confirmed, and yet it is not a fossil or a record in a museum — it is a living, breathing, endangered animal that can still be seen from the California coast every summer
Technology