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South Korean women are projected to become the first national population in history with an average life expectancy above 90. An Imperial College London study placed the 2030 estimate at 90.8 years???although its calculated chance of actually crossing 90 was only 57 per cent.
51+ min ago (1398+ words) A 2017 model put South Korean women's 2030 life expectancy at 90.8 years, but its probability of crossing 90 was just 57 per cent. Newer official data make that uncertainty central to the story. By The Long View · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published August 24, 2026 · How…...
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.
1+ day, 7+ 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
1+ day, 17+ 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,…...
A 2026 analysis of 488,765 people followed for as long as 32 years found that a stronger sense of purpose in life was associated with about a 30 per cent lower risk of earlier death
1+ day, 19+ hour ago (695+ words) A massive study reveals a striking correlation between purpose and longevity—but what it actually proves is far messier than the self-help industry would have you believe. By Science Blog Editorial Team · Edited by Mal James Published August 22, 2026 · How we…...
South Korean men born in 1996 were estimated to be about 15.2 centimetres taller than men born there in 1896??? while South Korean women gained an extraordinary 20.2 centimetres over the same century of birth cohorts.
1+ day, 22+ hour ago (553+ words) A century of radical transformation reshaped an entire population's body, revealing what nutrition, medicine, and prosperity can accomplish in just a few generations. By Lab Report · Edited by Mal James Published August 22, 2026 · How we edit We are not clinicians, geneticists,…...
China's population peaked at about 1.41 billion in 2021 and the UN projects it will fall to about 633 million by 2100 — while India is expected to keep growing until the early 2060s, when it could peak at about 1.7 billion.
2+ day, 5+ hour ago (660+ words) The world's two most populous countries are diverging sharply—one facing a historic collapse, the other still decades away from peak growth. By The Long View · Edited by Mal James Published August 21, 2026 · How we edit A decade ago, China and…...
Start with one cent on day one and double it every day, and by day 30 you would have $5,368,709.12 — one day later it would be more than $10.7 million.
2+ day, 8+ hour ago (674+ words) Our intuitions about exponential growth are catastrophically wrong—and that blindness shapes how we plan, invest, and prepare for the future. By The Long View · Edited by Mal James Published August 21, 2026 · How we edit Ask someone to guess where a…...
A radio backpack lighter than a raindrop is now riding on monarch butterflies — and the tiny solar-powered device may finally reveal how an insect navigates a migration route it has never flown before
2+ day, 17+ hour ago (409+ words) Every autumn, a monarch butterfly born in Canada or the northern United States does something that should be impossible. Published August 21, 2026 · How we edit Every autumn, a monarch butterfly born in Canada or the northern United States does something that…...
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
2+ day, 17+ hour ago (600+ words) Shirley Strum's decades of fieldwork on olive baboons in Kenya reshaped how biologists think about primate societies, replacing a model built on male aggression with one built on long-term female relationships and something that looks, from the outside, like a…...
Dimetrodon — the sail-backed predator routinely mistaken for a dinosaur — first appeared roughly 60 million years before the earliest dinosaurs and was actually more closely related to humans than to T. rex.
2+ day, 22+ hour ago (1080+ words) Dimetrodon lived in the Permian, before dinosaurs, and belonged to Synapsida, the same major evolutionary branch that later produced mammals. By Natural History · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published August 21, 2026 · How we edit The plastic dinosaur bin has been lying to…...