Europa has earned its place in astrobiology for a simple reason: beneath its fractured ice shell, Jupiter's moon is thought to hold a global saltwater ocean in contact with a rocky interior.
Two humpback whales have done something the species was not supposed to do often: they turned up on opposite sides of the planet, at breeding grounds normally treated as separate populations.
The bone was taller than the man standing beside it. That was the first real clue that the weathered shapes at the edge of a communal pond in Chaiyaphum province, in northeastern Thailand, were not stones.
Each of your kidneys holds roughly one million nephrons, together filtering about 180 litres of blood plasma every day. Sustained high-protein intake measurably raises the pressure inside every one of them — and unlike almost every other tissue in the body, nephrons do not grow back.
The familiar T. rex is an ending, not a life story. The animal most people picture is enormous: deep skull, heavy jaws, thick legs, a body built around the power to bite through bone.
The summit of Everest is usually imagined as the opposite of an ocean floor. It is the highest point on Earth above sea level, a wind-scoured place where the air is thin, the temperature is brutal and the nearest sea lies hundreds of kilometres away.
Let's start with the number that frames everything else. Earlier in 2026, Waymo was giving about 500,000 paid rides a week across its US markets.
The Scott Kelly telomere result is one of those spaceflight findings that sounds almost too neat at first.
A typical AI-focused data centre already sits closer to heavy industry than to the old image of a quiet server room.
On August 2nd 2026, the European Union's rulebook for artificial intelligence stops being a set of deadlines on paper and starts having teeth.
An adult silverback gorilla builds up to 200 kilograms of body mass on a diet that is roughly 85 percent leaves — powered by hindgut fermentation that produces the same short-chain fatty acids humans absorb from oats and beans.
Voyager 1's particle detectors said it had crossed into interstellar space in August 2012, but the magnetic field refused to turn as the models required. Settling the contradiction reshaped the picture of the Sun's edge.
With its power fading about four watts a year, Voyager 1 is being kept alive one switched-off instrument at a time, against a hard limit: let it get too cold and the fuel lines that feed its antenna-pointing thrusters could freeze.
On 9 July 2026, OpenAI released GPT-5.6, which it calls its most capable system yet, to the public.
Researchers in central Japan painted plain black cows with white stripes, stood them in a pasture, and photographed the flies that landed on them.
Earth's magnetic field has reversed hundreds of times, last flipped around 780,000 years ago, and has weakened for two centuries. What that does, and does not, tell us.
