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July 2026
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Earth & Life
The 24-hour day is not fixed but slowly stretching, and in the dinosaurs' time it…
Science & Engineering
How does a lake the size of Lake Ontario stay liquid under four kilometres of…
Science & Engineering
For most of us the Hale-Bopp comet was a once-in-a-lifetime sight in the spring of…
Psychology
When researchers had a parent hold a blank, still face toward their baby, most…
Science & Engineering
We have more accurate maps of the surface of Mars and the Moon than of the floor of…
Psychology
For decades, working out the shape of a single protein could cost a scientist years…
Earth & Life
Several major cities are now close enough to running out of water that officials…
Science & Engineering
On 1 September 1859 a solar storm hit Earth hard enough that auroras were seen over…
Psychology
In 1848, a railway foreman named Phineas Gage was packing explosives into rock when…
Science & Engineering
Eighteen metres under a field in Romania sits a cave whose air no human can breathe…
Science & Engineering
A woman who hadn't spoken an intelligible word in twenty years, silenced by a…
Science & Engineering
In a University of Chicago lab, a rat left free to roam learned to open a tube and…
Human Factors
One of the world's smallest economies stumbled into a fortune it never built
Human Factors
Norway struck oil in 1969 and did the opposite of what most countries do with…
Science & Engineering