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A single aspen clone in Utah called Pando covers 106 acres, weighs about 6,000 tonnes, and shares one root system that makes it a single organism roughly 14,000 years old, quietly dying now from mule deer eating every young shoot before it can grow
11+ min ago (922+ words) The oldest and heaviest organism on Earth is being methodically consumed by animals that see only individual trees, not the ancient clone that connects them all. By Science Blog Editorial Team · Editorial process Published July 21, 2026 The trees you can see…...
While the rest of the world braces for longer wildfire seasons, Africa's fires have been quietly retreating for 20 years — and the reason has almost nothing to do with climate policy
59+ min ago (869+ words) By Science Blog Editorial Team · Editorial process Published July 21, 2026 Africa’s fire season — the great annual burn that turns the continent’s savannas into the largest source of biomass smoke on Earth — is getting shorter. And researchers now think they can explain…...
A reef off Benin was written off as dead sixty years ago — the drone footage that finally went back down tells a very different story about what 1960s marine science missed
1+ hour, 11+ min ago (265+ words) Sixty years of abandonment masked a thriving ecosystem that modern technology finally revealed—and challenged what we thought we knew about deep-ocean life. By Science Blog Editorial Team · Editorial process Published July 21, 2026 A deep-water coral reef off the coast of…...
NASA’s astronaut selection process goes far beyond résumés, intelligence and physical fitness. Through psychological interviews and demanding behavioural simulations, assessors watch how candidates solve problems, communicate, regulate themselves and adapt under pressure—because technical brilliance matters little if someone cannot keep functioning when a mission becomes uncertain or begins to go wrong.
6+ hour, 26+ min ago (1048+ words) The astronauts who survive NASA's gauntlet aren't necessarily the smartest—they're the ones who stay sharp when everything falls apart. By Lachlan Brown · Editorial process Published July 21, 2026 The purpose was not simply to identify the smartest or most technically accomplished…...
There's an avoidant style that isn't built in childhood but in adulthood — a once-open person who, after a betrayal, a divorce and a friend group that turned, quietly decides being known costs too much and rebuilds the wall with adult hands
6+ hour, 29+ min ago (688+ words) Purdue's Susan South is tracking a pattern attachment theory did not originally predict: adults with warm histories who, after a specific sequence of adult ruptures, quietly rebuild themselves as avoidant — and do so with full awareness of what they are…...
In 2017, Australia officially shifted its national coordinates 1.8 meters northeast — because its tectonic plate moves about seven centimeters a year and the 1994 datum had fallen behind
7+ hour, 16+ min ago (784+ words) The ground beneath your feet is slowly drifting, and the maps that locate it have to keep pace. By Lachlan Brown · Editorial process Published July 21, 2026 In December 2017, Australia officially shifted its national coordinate reference frame about 1.8 meters northeast. The continent…...
A paleontologist noticed the dirt inside a fossil rodent's empty tooth sockets was smoother than sediment should ever be — CT scans revealed up to six generations of bee nests, built and rebuilt in the same cavity over thousands of years.
9+ hour, 21+ min ago (216+ words) Paleontologist Lázaro W. Viñola-López, of Chicago's Field Museum, was cleaning fossil jawbones from an extinct Caribbean rodent called a hutia when he noticed something that did not sit right. By Science Blog Editorial Team · Editorial process Published July 20, 2026 The paper…...
The 'tallest' mountain on Earth is named after a man who asked for it not to be — George Everest, a British surveyor whose own surname was not even pronounced 'Ever-est' at all, but 'Eve-rest'.
11+ hour, 21+ min ago (464+ words) By Mal James · Editorial process Published July 20, 2026 Let’s start with the small thing, because it’s the one you can fix in a second. The man the mountain is named after did not say his name the way you say the…...
In 2011 the Netherlands dumped twenty one and a half million cubic meters of sand into the sea in one enormous pile, and let wind and tide spread it into new coastline for the next twenty years instead of trucking sand in every few years
13+ hour, 21+ min ago (118+ words) In 2011, engineers piled 21.5 million cubic metres of sand into a single peninsula off the Dutch coast and then largely left it alone, betting that wind, waves, and currents would spread it into new coastline over the next twenty years. By…...
A reminder from Stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius to live in the present: "No one loses any other life than this which he is living, nor lives any other than this which he is losing."
15+ hour, 21+ min ago (630+ words) Aurelius builds the argument to a point. Since the present is all anyone can lose: this instant, and nothing more. By Mal James · Editorial process Published July 20, 2026 I’m not a psychologist or a philosopher, and what follows is reading and…...