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Freshwater shrimp kept for twenty hours at a caffeine concentration detected in highly polluted rivers spent less time in the dark than shrimp kept at ordinary background levels, and that shift was about the same size as the one caused by a parasite that manipulates them into being eaten by water birds
1+ day, 27+ min ago (524+ words) The high tanks held 10,000 nanograms of caffeine per litre and the low tanks held 100, two levels chosen because both occur in real rivers. There was no caffeine-free group at all, so what the experiment measures is the distance between those…...
Scientists have traced the human eye back to a tiny one-eyed ancestor that lived nearly 600 million years ago — and remnants of that ancient “cyclops” eye may still survive inside our brains as the pineal gland
4+ day, 20+ hour ago (197+ words) René Descartes decided the soul entered the body through the pineal gland, a lump of tissue roughly the size of a rice grain, buried near the centre of the...
Used grounds from one university cafeteria in England were baked into biochar and used to filter water. Each gram pulled 4.9 milligrams of lead out of contaminated water and stripped as much as 98 percent of it.
5+ day, 4+ hour ago (136+ words) A waste product from campus cafeterias proves remarkably effective at removing one of America's most persistent water contaminants—and it costs almost nothing to make....
The UN's new assessment says global temperatures could be pulled back below 1.5C late this century, but the sea cannot be pulled back with them, because warm water expands and ice sheets keep shedding mass for centuries after the air above them has cooled
1+ week, 2+ day ago (29+ words) Even if humanity stops global warming mid-century, the oceans will keep rising for hundreds of years—a reckoning buried in the UN's otherwise hopeful new climate roadmap....
An elephant's trunk has no bones but contains roughly 90,000 muscle units, giving it enough strength to move heavy objects while still allowing it to perform remarkably delicate movements
2+ week, 16+ hour ago (604+ words) How does one boneless organ uproot a tree one minute and pick up a single blade of grass the next? By Life Signs · Edited by Mal James Published August 29, 2026 · How we edit How does one boneless organ uproot a tree…...
Footage from the Red Sea shows octopuses hunting side by side with fish — and when a fish partner hangs back instead of flushing prey out on cue, the octopus has been filmed punching it with an extended arm, sometimes for no food reward at all
2+ week, 4+ day ago (18+ words) Octopuses hunting with fish partners will punish them for slacking—and sometimes just for the sake of it....
When scientists disrupted dopamine in hungry rats, the animals still showed pleasure when sweet food was placed in their mouths — they just lost the drive to work for it, suggesting dopamine governs wanting more than enjoyment
2+ week, 6+ day ago (358+ words) The brain's reward chemical may not deliver pleasure at all—it's the engine that makes us crave, seek and strive. Published August 23, 2026 · How we edit Strip a rat of almost all its dopamine and it will still pull a happy…...
Women born in Spain in 1896 were estimated to average about 151.1 centimetres tall. Those born in 1996 averaged about 163.4 centimetres — a gain of 12.3 centimetres across a century of birth cohorts.
3+ week, 19+ hour ago (667+ words) A century of better nutrition, healthcare, and living standards has literally reshaped the human body—Spanish women today tower over their great-great-grandmothers by a full hand's width. By Space Daily Editorial Team · Edited by Mal James Published August 22, 2026 · How we…...
Brain implants are beginning to move from science fiction into clinical trials: people with paralysis are already testing systems that can turn neural signals into cursor movement, robotic-arm control, and even decoded speech
3+ week, 1+ day ago (290+ words) The paralyzed and speech-impaired are proving that brain implants can restore communication—not in labs, but at home, at speeds approaching natural conversation. Published August 21, 2026 · How we edit Casey Harrell said close to two million words in nearly two years....
Mars dirt looks deceptively ordinary, yet samples contain around 0.5% perchlorate salts that can disrupt the human thyroid — meaning the red dust astronauts track inside their habitat could be chemically toxic as well as annoyingly impossible to keep out.
3+ week, 3+ day ago (795+ words) Phoenix measured 0.4 to 0.6 per cent perchlorate in Martian soil. NASA's 2026 dust limit shows why the thyroid hazard is real but manageable through habitat engineering. By Lachlan Brown · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published August 20, 2026 · How we edit Mars does not need…...