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In 98 years of the University of Queensland pitch drop experiment, nine drops have fallen and no human has ever seen one land

In 98 years of the University of Queensland pitch ...

The University of Queensland pitch drop experiment has been running since 1927, dripped nine times, ...
The bootlace worm, a ribbon of black slime found tangled on North Sea beaches, can stretch to more than 55 metres (longer than a blue whale), making it arguably the longest animal on Earth, and its skin secretes a neurotoxin that killed cockroaches and crabs after laboratory injection

The bootlace worm, a ribbon of black slime found t...

A 55-metre specimen stranded on a Scottish beach in 1864 made the bootlace worm a contender for the ...
The Eighth Circuit ruled that when a pipeline company exercises federal eminent domain power, federal law displaces North Dakota’s statute requiring reimbursement of a landowner’s attorney fees — a reversal of the trial court that the Supreme Court has now agreed to review

The Eighth Circuit ruled that when a pipeline comp...

The Supreme Court has agreed to review an Eighth Circuit ruling that federal law displaces North Dak...
In 1962, French geologist Michel Siffre climbed into a glacier cave in the Alps with no clock and no sunlight and stayed for two months, and when his team called him up on 14 September he insisted it was still 20 August, some of the earliest evidence that human circadian rhythm drifts free of any external cue

In 1962, French geologist Michel Siffre climbed in...

In the summer of 1962, a 23-year-old French geologist spent 63 days alone in a glacier cave with no ...
Primatologist Shirley Strum has spent more than fifty years following the same olive baboons in Kenya, and what she found was not a hierarchy of aggressive males but a society running on friendship, memory of who helped whom, and constant negotiation

Primatologist Shirley Strum has spent more than fi...

Shirley Strum's decades of fieldwork on olive baboons in Kenya reshaped how biologists think about p...
In 1991, two hikers in the Ötztal Alps found a body sticking out of the melting ice and assumed it was a recent climber, but the corpse turned out to be a 5,300-year-old man with an arrowhead in his shoulder, 61 tattoos, and a 99.7%-pure copper axe whose metal was traced to southern Tuscany, revealing long-distance Copper Age connections

In 1991, two hikers in the Ötztal Alps found a bod...

The 5,300-year-old man found in an Alpine glacier in 1991 carried a copper axe traced to Tuscany, 61...
When Friedrich Miescher isolated a strange phosphorus-rich substance from the pus-soaked bandages of wounded soldiers in a Tübingen laboratory in 1869, he called it nuclein and had no idea he had just held the first purified sample of DNA, seventy-four years before Avery would show it carried the code of life

When Friedrich Miescher isolated a strange phospho...

In 1869, Swiss chemist Friedrich Miescher isolated a phosphorus-rich substance from pus-soaked banda...
Roman concrete piers built two thousand years ago along the Mediterranean coast are stronger now than the day they were poured, because seawater seeping into the volcanic ash mix triggers the slow growth of a rare crystal called aluminous tobermorite that welds new cracks shut

Roman concrete piers built two thousand years ago ...

Roman piers along the Mediterranean have stood for two thousand years while modern reinforced concre...
We tend to picture the Sahara as an eternal desert, but sediment cores and cave paintings show that as recently as 6,000 years ago it was a green savanna crossed by rivers and lakes, populated by hippos, crocodiles and cattle-herding people whose rock art still survives on the walls of Tassili n’Ajjer

We tend to picture the Sahara as an eternal desert...

Sediment cores, ancient DNA, and 15,000 rock paintings at Tassili n'Ajjer confirm the Sahara was a g...
Quote by Viktor Frankl: Between stimulus and response there is a space, in that space is our power to choose our response, and in our response lies our growth and our freedom

Quote by Viktor Frankl: Between stimulus and respo...

What neuroscience reveals about our most beloved quote on human agency—and whether the freedom it pr...
A coastal redwood named Hyperion stands 115.9 metres tall in a hidden fold of Redwood National Park, taller than the Statue of Liberty, and the National Park Service refuses to disclose its location after tourists trampled the root system of the previous record-holder

A coastal redwood named Hyperion stands 115.9 metr...

The world's tallest living tree, a 115.9-metre coast redwood in California's Redwood National Park, ...
The Paradoxical Politics of Climate

The Paradoxical Politics of Climate

The science was right all along, but which side suppresses inconvenient climate findings has fundame...
Every year, roughly 27.7 million tonnes of dust lift off the Bodélé Depression in Chad, cross 5,000 kilometres of Atlantic Ocean, and settle on the Amazon rainforest, delivering the phosphorus that keeps the world’s largest jungle from starving its own soil

Every year, roughly 27.7 million tonnes of dust li...

A dried lakebed in Chad exhales roughly 27.7 million tonnes of phosphorus-rich dust each year. Trade...
Some of the loneliest people in their sixties are the ones who spent forty years being described as easy, low-maintenance, and never a bother, because the description was true and no one thought to ask what it cost

Some of the loneliest people in their sixties are ...

A quiet pattern in later-life loneliness: the people described for decades as easy and low-maintenan...
Psychology says adults who cannot nap without setting three alarms, closing every door, and telling someone where they’ll be aren’t overly cautious, they never had the kind of childhood where resting felt like something the world would let them get away with

Psychology says adults who cannot nap without sett...

Some adults need three alarms and a closed door before they can rest. Research on early-life stress ...
Psychology suggests adults who prefer eating alone at restaurants aren’t lonely or antisocial, they’ve learned that a meal without emotional labour is one of the few forms of rest they can actually count on

Psychology suggests adults who prefer eating alone...

Solo dining reservations have climbed sharply since 2021. Read alongside the research on emotional l...
Psychologists say the adults who seem to age most gracefully in their seventies aren’t the ones who stayed busiest, they’re the ones who slowly gave themselves permission to stop auditioning for approval from people who were never going to hand it out

Psychologists say the adults who seem to age most ...

The people who seem to age most gracefully in their seventies aren't always the busiest. Often they ...
Much of the gold on Earth, in wedding rings and dental fillings and central bank reserve bars, was likely forged when neutron stars collided before the Sun existed, then scattered through space and swept up into the rock that became this planet

Much of the gold on Earth, in wedding rings and de...

Almost all of Earth's gold was forged in the collision of two neutron stars long before the solar sy...

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