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In 2006 researchers dredging off Iceland pulled up an ocean quahog clam and froze it with the rest of their samples, unaware that it had been alive since about 1499. Its tightly packed shell rings were eventually counted at 507—making “Ming” the oldest accurately aged non-colonial animal ever recorded, killed before anyone realised it had lived through five centuries of history.
1+ hour, 43+ min ago (1004+ words) Ming was frozen with roughly 200 research specimens before its age was known. A later count of 507 annual shell rings placed its birth around 1499. By Natural History · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published September 13, 2026 · How we edit In 2006, a Bangor University research…...
New York dumped its garbage at Fresh Kills for more than half a century, creating a 2,200-acre landfill on Staten Island??? the former dump is now being transformed into a park almost three times the size of Central Park
1+ hour, 51+ min ago (174+ words) A massive Staten Island landfill that swallowed 150 million tons of New York's trash is being reborn as an enormous green space, proving that even our waste can be reclaimed. By Science Blog Editorial Team Published September 13, 2026 · How we edit Some…...
People are falling in love with AI companions that remember their lives, flirt back and are always available to talk — researchers studying these relationships have found users forming intense emotional bonds and treating the bots like romantic partners
5+ hour, 8+ min ago (255+ words) When the AI they loved stopped being themselves overnight, users experienced grief indistinguishable from losing a real person—raising urgent questions about emotional authenticity in the digital age. Published September 13, 2026 · How we edit In February 2023, Replika users woke up to…...
In 1919, one pair of mute swans was carried from an Iowa estate into northern Michigan's Charlevoix County; by 2013 the state population had reached an estimated 17,520 birds. Michigan's own written target is to bring the population below 2,000 by 2030.
21+ hour, 38+ min ago (623+ words) A picturesque introduction of two swans to Michigan a century ago has become an ecological crisis the state now races to reverse. Published September 12, 2026 · How we edit Two birds. That is where Michigan’s mute swan story begins. In 1919, a single…...
Paper bags and cardboard boxes normally headed for the trash were carbonized into anodes for lithium-ion batteries, and the resulting electrodes survived 1,200 charge cycles — roughly twice the durability of anodes used in current phone batteries
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (441+ words) By Science Blog Editorial Team Published September 12, 2026 · How we edit A paper bag that carried someone’s lunch on Tuesday has a plausible future inside a phone. Researchers at NTU Singapore have worked out how to bake kraft paper, the brown…...
136 long-clawed shrew skulls from Hokkaido showed the classic winter flattening of the braincase, and across the same series the snout enlarged in winter and shrank again in spring
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (595+ words) A museum series of Sorex unguiculatus from Tomakomai confirms Dehnel's winter braincase shrink in an Asian shrew, and adds a reverse pattern in the snout that the authors did not find in the jaw. By Natural History · Edited by Chris…...
Blueberry seeds pulled out of five wolf scats in northern Minnesota germinated at 96 percent against 69 percent for seeds taken straight from the fruit, and half of them had sprouted by day 19 rather than day 26
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (721+ words) The difference is real and the size of it is not settled: measured against the best of the study's three control batches, the advantage shrinks from 27 percentage points to five. By Natural History · Edited by Chris Jeremia Published September 12, 2026 · How…...
A viewing deck 210 meters over Paris opened in 1974 and shut on March 31 this year for several years while the whole building is rebuilt. The company that ran it had owned and operated the observatory and its floors for 53 years.
2+ day, 21+ hour ago (593+ words) After 52 years of operation, Paris's highest public vantage point goes dark—not for renovation, but for a complete rebuilding that could keep it closed until 2030. By Science Blog Editorial Team · Edited by Mal James Published September 10, 2026 · How we edit On…...
A British businessman bought the island of Lundy in 1925, decided it should largely govern itself and began issuing his own stamps and “Puffin” coins — until the British government prosecuted him for making his own money
3+ day, 5+ hour ago (687+ words) When a financier's fantasy of island sovereignty collided with crown law, a handful of homemade coins became evidence in one of Britain's most peculiar prosecutions. Published September 10, 2026 · How we edit Put a 1929 puffin in your palm and it feels like…...
Monarch butterflies migrating up to 4,000 km from Canada to the mountain forests of central Mexico navigate by the Sun while continuously correcting for the time of day — essentially reading a compass and a clock at once with a brain the size of a pinhead
4+ day, 3+ hour ago (291+ words) A creature smaller than a postage stamp solves one of nature's greatest navigation puzzles without ever being taught the way. Published September 9, 2026 · How we edit A monarch butterfly weighs roughly half a gram, half the weight of a standard paperclip,…...