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The second closest potentially habitable planet to Earth is not around a famous star; it is GJ 887 d, confirmed in 2026 around a quiet red dwarf 10.7 light-years away - making GJ 887 d the second-closest known habitable-zone planet after Proxima Centauri b
14+ min ago (1386+ words) The most promising nearby world for life doesn't have a name you'd recognize—just a catalog designation and a star so dim it barely registers in our sky....
Spend a year in space and your own body will betray you on the way home, starting with your spine.
2+ hour, 49+ min ago (756+ words) Astronauts spend months training for launch and a year adjusting to weightlessness, but nothing prepares them for the moment gravity becomes their enemy again. By Kiran Journals · Editorial process Published July 25, 2026 Here’s the thing about weightlessness that most people never…...
How does the closest planet to the Sun, with a surface that hits 430 degrees at noon, hold on to billions of tonnes of ice that never melt?
4+ hour, 19+ min ago (1240+ words) By Lachlan Brown · Editorial process Published July 25, 2026 Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun. On its hottest daytime terrain, the temperature can reach about 430 degrees Celsius. Yet near its poles, billions of tonnes of water ice sit inside craters…...
How does a pond in Antarctica sitting at minus 50 degrees refuse to freeze, year after year, while everything around it is solid ice?
5+ hour, 44+ min ago (795+ words) A shallow puddle of hyperconcentrated brine defies Antarctica's deep freeze, but the phenomenon is far more fragile and temporary than decades of popular science have suggested....
The Vatican is a fully sovereign state — with its own passports, postal service, tiny military guard and head of state — yet the whole country would fit comfortably inside a large city park
6+ hour, 47+ min ago (556+ words) The world's smallest country packs all the machinery of statehood—a constitution, currency, military, postal service—into a territory smaller than many city parks, raising the question of what sovereignty actually means. By Mal James · Editorial process Published July 25, 2026 A…...
A study showed six-month-old babies photos of spiders next to flowers matched for size and colour, and their pupils widened measurably for the spiders
6+ hour, 59+ min ago (319+ words) Infants appear hardwired to notice spiders, dilating their pupils in fear before they've ever seen one in the wild....
A deep-water shark's liver can account for up to 30 per cent of its total body mass, and the oil inside it is what corrects for having no swim bladder: the liver is, functionally, the shark's buoyancy organ
7+ hour, 19+ min ago (358+ words) Without a swim bladder, deep-sea sharks rely on their oversized livers—filled with buoyant oil—to stay afloat, turning a metabolic organ into an engineering marvel of neutral density. By Daniel Moran · Editorial process Published July 25, 2026 A deep-water shark’s liver can…...
A lion's tongue is covered in hollow, backward-pointing spines called papillae, widely credited with stripping flesh from bone and lifting hair from a hide: the same structure that makes a lick from a domestic cat feel like sandpaper
7+ hour, 34+ min ago (368+ words) The spines on a lion's tongue are made of keratin, the same material as its claws, and they point backwards towards the throat. They are routinely credited...
The Great Pyramid was raised from an estimated 2.3 million stone blocks in roughly 20 years — which works out to setting a block, some weighing several tonnes, about once every few minutes of daylight for two decades
9+ hour, 50+ min ago (523+ words) The Great Pyramid of Giza is built from something like 2.3 million stone blocks, averaging about 2.5 tons each, and it took roughly 20 years to build. By Mal James · Editorial process Published July 25, 2026 The Great Pyramid of Giza is built from something…...
Why is ChatGPT drinking bottles of fresh water to answer your questions, and who is actually paying for it?
11+ hour, 50+ min ago (52+ words) Here's the thing about the water going into ChatGPT. It's real water. It's fresh. It's drinkable. And most of the time, it's not coming from anywhere near the...