Human Behaviour
August 2026
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Science & Engineering
Every textbook says Venus is Earth's nearest planetary neighbour, but a simulation…
Science & Engineering
Off the coast of Brazil sits an island so dangerous that the government has banned…
Science & Engineering
There are around 18 million people in the Netherlands
Science & Engineering
Nearly seven miles beneath the surface of the Pacific Ocean lies a place so hostile…
Human Factors
When you lock eyes with your dog, something happens in both your bodies
Science & Engineering
The Red Cross estimates that roughly three million Vietnamese people have been…
Science & Engineering
The James Webb Space Telescope just found the same unidentified molecule on both…
Culture
By 2021, more than 98% of Korean homes had a refrigerator designed specifically for…
Universe
Scientists reanalysed 1978 Pioneer Venus data and found the planet's clouds are…
Science & Engineering
Around 1,200 people quietly moved back into the Chernobyl exclusion zone after the…
Universe
Saturn now has at least 285 confirmed moons
Space & Missions
The programme to return Perseverance's rock samples from Mars was cancelled by the…
Space & Missions
The nearest star system sits 4.2 light-years away—a distance today’s spacecraft…
Universe
A giant planet was hiding in plain sight in one of astronomy's most-studied star…
Science & Engineering