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An 82-year-old woman climbed into a rocket in Texas on July 20, 2021, sixty years after passing the same medical screening tests used for the Mercury astronauts in a privately run program that never sent any of its women to space. She applied to NASA four times without getting in, logged 19,600 flying hours and taught more than 3,000 people to fly.
1+ day, 14+ hour ago (386+ words) In 1961, a young pilot named Mary Wallace Funk took the same medical tests NASA had used to screen its Mercury astronauts. By Science Blog Editorial Team Published September 11, 2026 · How we edit In 1961, a young pilot named Mary Wallace Funk took…...
A data center in Denmark gives away heat that data centers often waste. It runs water from the city's heating network through its cooling units and into heat pumps that raise it enough to fill the radiators of 11,000 homes
5+ day, 18+ hour ago (616+ words) As data centers consume ever more power, one facility in Denmark shows how to turn a costly cooling problem into a heating solution for thousands of households. By Science Blog Editorial Team · Edited by Mal James Published September 7, 2026 · How we…...
Four hippos brought to Colombia in 1981 have multiplied into nearly 200 animals roaming the Magdalena River basin — the world’s largest invasive animal, spreading through warm rivers with abundant food and few natural checks
6+ day, 2+ hour ago (252+ words) Published September 7, 2026 · How we edit A sign beside a cattle pond in central Colombia warns visitors that the water belongs to the most dangerous animal on earth and that they should stay out of it. The sign is accurate. It…...
Researchers put bright patterned sleeves on 94 hunting cats, and the birds they brought home fell by nearly two-thirds — the colors made stalking cats easier for birds to spot, while their success against mammals barely changed
6+ day, 5+ hour ago (601+ words) Ninety-four cats spent a breeding season prowling New York and Florida wearing what can only be described as a clown ruff. By Science Blog Editorial Team · Edited by Daniel Moran Published September 7, 2026 · How we edit Results came out lopsided. Writing…...
A Brazilian couple took over a badly degraded former cattle farm and in 1998 founded an organisation to restore its Atlantic Forest; the first survey, in 2006, found 172 bird species had already returned to the recovering forest.
1+ week, 18+ hour ago (326+ words) When Sebastião Salgado inherited his family's cattle ranch near Aimorés, in Brazil's Rio Doce Valley, the land was close to dead. Published September 5, 2026 · How we edit That half a percent is where this story begins. What sits on the same…...
The Netherlands dredged 30 million cubic metres of sand, clay and silt from the bottom of a shallow lake and shaped it into 5 low islands; by 2020, a gull-billed tern chick had hatched there, after only one Dutch breeding case had been recorded since 1958
1+ week, 2+ day ago (557+ words) Engineers in the Netherlands took fine mud choking a lifeless lake and used it to build five low islands and within a few years, rare birds started showing up. Published September 3, 2026 · How we edit We are not ornithologists or ecologists,…...
Portugal collects used wine corks from shops, restaurants and other collection points and sends them for grinding and recycling into products including insulation, flooring and other cork composites.
1+ week, 3+ day ago (673+ words) A tiny material that seems obviously recyclable becomes waste because most sorting systems can't handle it—unless you know where to send it instead. Published September 3, 2026 · How we edit A used wine cork is a natural material, it looks recyclable,…...
A single gene on chromosome 7 of a wild tomato lets modern hybrids grow under 24-hour light and yield up to 20% more fruit
1+ week, 4+ day ago (329+ words) In 2014, researchers at Wageningen University moved a single gene called CAB-13 from a wild Andean tomato into modern hybrids and reported that the plants grew under continuous light and yielded roughly 20 percent more fruit. What the finding actually shows, and…...
Reading before bed does help you sleep, but the surprising catch is what you read it on
1+ week, 4+ day ago (707+ words) ScienceBlog.com is an independent daily science news publication covering peer-reviewed research across all major scientific disciplines. Founded in 2002, it is one of the longest-running science news sites on the internet. It curates and reports on breakthroughs from universities, research…...
Meta is reportedly testing robots inside its data centres that can swap networking cables and restart servers—and one worker estimates a successful cable-swapping robot could automate up to 80 percent of some technicians’ workloads.
1+ week, 6+ day ago (751+ words) The reported robots range from button pressers to supervised cabling pilots. The 80 percent figure is one worker's conditional estimate, not a measured result or Meta staffing target. By Science Blog Editorial Team · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published August 31, 2026 · How we…...