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Dog owners were 31% less likely to die from cardiovascular causes than non-owners in a major analysis, according to the American Heart Association — a gap researchers think may involve not just walking, but the daily health effects of companionship, routine, and feeling needed
2+ hour, 7+ min ago (653+ words) The cardiovascular benefits of dog ownership rival many medical interventions, and may have less to do with walks than with the daily discipline of being needed. Published August 25, 2026 · How we edit Somewhere right now, a dog is standing at a…...
Plants account for about 80 per cent of Earth's biomass measured as carbon, roughly 450 gigatonnes, while estimates suggest human land use has cut the amount of carbon stored in vegetation to about half its potential level
4+ hour, 50+ min ago (576+ words) Humans have halved the carbon storage capacity of Earth's plants—and we're only beginning to understand what that means for climate and survival. By Natural History · Edited by Mal James Published August 25, 2026 · How we edit Of all the carbon locked…...
Across roughly 1,000 languages, those that pack more information into each word tend to move meaning faster but cover less ground in conversation — suggesting the structure of a language changes the shape of what its speakers discuss
10+ hour, 55+ min ago (1236+ words) A 998-language analysis linked denser word-level encoding with faster matched speech and narrower semantic paths in a 14-language conversation subset, without establishing causation. By Lab Report · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published August 25, 2026 · How we edit Translate the same passage into…...
The people you become friends with may already process the world like you do before either of you says hello — brain responses to the same movie clips predicted who would be friends eight months later
11+ hour, 55+ min ago (1601+ words) A longitudinal fMRI study found that pre-existing similarities in responses to movie clips anticipated later friendship-network proximity, although the strongest results were narrower than a universal friend detector. By Mind & Matter · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published August 25, 2026 · How we edit…...
A coal seam beneath Australia's Burning Mountain has been smouldering for about 6,000 years; today the fire is roughly 30 metres underground and is still creeping south at about a metre a year
12+ hour, 54+ min ago (628+ words) The oldest fire we know of is not in a myth or a temple. It is under a hill in New South Wales, about a four-hour drive north of Sydney, and it has been burning without pause since before the…...
On 5 July 2024, Earth completed a rotation 1.66 milliseconds short of 86,400 seconds, the shortest day measured in the atomic-clock era, breaking the previous record set in June 2022
14+ hour, 47+ min ago (403+ words) Scientists still don't know why Earth suddenly started spinning faster after billions of years of slowdown, but the implications for timekeeping could force a historic reckoning. By Lab Report · Edited by Mal James Published August 24, 2026 · How we edit Both things…...
When Hunga Tonga erupted underwater in 2022, it fired so much water vapour into the upper atmosphere that it measurably increased the total amount of water in the stratosphere, and scientists are still tracking how it may nudge the climate for years.
18+ hour, 17+ min ago (153+ words) A volcanic explosion in the South Pacific delivered an unprecedented amount of water vapor directly into Earth's upper atmosphere, potentially altering global temperatures in ways scientists are only beginning to understand. Published August 24, 2026 · How we edit Hunga Tonga didn’t. What…...
Sixteen mummified people and a mummified canid accumulated in a single Egyptian side chamber just over five metres long over at least three centuries, and the coffins that structured the earliest burials had stopped appearing entirely by the last ones
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (890+ words) A new archaeothanatological study of Side Chamber 3 in Theban Tomb 209 finds at least six of its nine funerary deposits vertically superimposed, and argues the chamber itself took over the organising job the coffins used to do. By The Long View…...
One tonne of discarded mobile-phone handsets can contain about 130 kilograms of copper, 3.5 kilograms of silver and 300 to 350 grams of gold — valuable metals already mined, refined and concentrated inside the devices.
2+ day, 17+ hour ago (483+ words) A working gold mine is doing well if it pulls 5 to 20 grams of gold per tonne of rock. By The Long View Published August 22, 2026 · How we edit A working gold mine is doing well if it pulls 5 to 20 grams of…...
Singapore treats trees as more than decoration: research shows street shade can measurably cool the air around roads, while tree cover near buildings can reduce the demand for air-conditioning in one of Asia's hottest cities
3+ day, 3+ hour ago (627+ words) In one of the world's hottest cities, Singapore's decades-long tree-planting obsession is paying measurable dividends: cooler streets and lower electricity bills. Published August 22, 2026 · How we edit There is a moment on a Singapore footpath, somewhere around two in the afternoon,…...