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Tongue tied: Humans once spoke tens of thousands of languages, so what happened?

According to a study published in the journal Science, today's spoken languages are the legacy of a handful that survived a major "language bottleneck" in the past.

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America cancelled the world's most powerful particle collider, leaving a 22.5-km tunnel hidden beneath Texas for more than 30 years

A vast underground tunnel system stretching 22.5 kilometres still lies hidden beneath the fields of Texas, marking the unfinished remains of the Superconducting Super Collider (SSC), one of the most ambitious science projects ever attempted in the United States. Designed to become the world's most powerful particle accelerator, the collider…

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The Animals With the Longest Lifespan on Earth and the Biology Behind Their Longevity

The Clam That Outlived EmpiresIn 2006, researchers at Bangor University pulled an ocean quahog clam, Arctica islandica, from the seabed off Iceland and counted its growth rings the way a forester reads a tree. The rings said 507 years. The clam, nicknamed Ming, had been alive when the Mughal Empire…

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Human-like sense of social punishment: In 2010, fish shocked scientists by punishing bad behavior at feeding time

Male cleaner fish punish females for eating preferred food. This behavior occurs even when males are not directly harmed. Researchers recreated this dilemma in laboratory experiments. The males act in their own self-interest to ensure meals. This study suggests a form of third-party punishment in fish.

The Economic Times

Why Animal Sleep Cycles Differ So Dramatically Across Species and What That Reveals About Biology

The Numbers Are Stranger Than You ThinkThe African elephant sleeps roughly two hours per night, often while standing. The little brown bat, Myotis lucifugus, sleeps close to twenty hours. The domestic cat, which most Indian households treat as an occasional visitor or a permanent resident depending on the building's bylaws,…

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South Korea promises free homegrown AI chatbot this year

As the technology has spread, countries have become increasingly concerned with so-called "AI sovereignty" -- developing domestic models serving their own security, privacy and business interests. A spokesperson for South Korea's science ministry told AFP Tuesday that a government initiative aims to roll out a general-purpose AI chatbot as well…

The Economic Times

Why Daydreaming Is the Missing Tool in Your Productivity and Creativity Toolkit

Chanakya Knew the Idle Mind Had Work to DoChanakya wrote in the Arthashastra that a minister who never rests will exhaust his judgment before he exhausts his enemies. The principle was about statecraft, but the neuroscience behind it took another 2,300 years to arrive. In 2001, neurologist Marcus Raichle at…

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Science news this week: Gold tongues discovered in tombs, sugar found in space, a new monkey identified in the Congolian rainforest, and ancient impact crater 'geoguessed' by an amateur astronomer

July 18, 2026: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend

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The Axolotl Can Regrow Its Own Heart, And Scientists Are Studying It to Understand Human Healing

A creature that does not scarCut off an axolotl's leg and it grows back. Not approximately, the bone, muscle, nerves, and skin return in the correct arrangement, fully functional, within weeks. The same happens with its heart muscle after damage, with segments of its spinal cord after injury, and with…

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Lionesses Run the Pride: What the Male Lion's Role Actually Looks Like in the Wild

The Hunters Are FemaleLionesses make roughly 90 percent of a pride's kills. That figure comes from decades of field observation in the Serengeti, including the long-running lion research project led by Craig Packer at the University of Minnesota, one of the most comprehensive predator studies ever conducted. The male is…

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5 Fasting Mistakes That Slow Your Metabolism and Make You Gain Weight Instead of Losing It

Eating Too Little for Too LongA 2022 study published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that extreme caloric restriction during fasting windows causes the body to down-regulate its resting metabolic rate within days, not weeks. The body reads a severe deficit as a famine signal. Muscle tissue breaks…

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Why Bee Populations Face Extinction: The Decline, the Pesticides, and the Food We Stand to Lose

The Scale of What Is Already GoneA single honeybee colony can contain up to 80,000 workers. In the United States alone, beekeepers lost an estimated 45.5% of managed honeybee colonies in 2022 to 23, according to the Bee Informed Partnership, one of the highest annual losses on record. Europe has…

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How Monarch Butterflies Use the Sun as a Compass to Navigate 4,000 Kilometres of Migration

A Clock Inside the AntennaThe monarch butterfly does not simply fly toward the sun. That would leave it hopelessly off course as the sun arcs across the sky from east to west. Instead, the butterfly compensates for the sun's movement by running it against an internal clock, a circadian timer…

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UCLA Scientists Found Why Muscles Heal More Slowly with Age: A Single Protein May Be Acting Like a Brake

UCLA's Science study found protein NDRG1 in aging muscle stem cells slows healing at 3.5x higher levels. Blocking it in mice restored young-cell behavior — with a catch.

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Britain in 2011 launched a mission to poison every rat on South Georgia Island after invasive rodents devastated seabird colonies; by 2018, native birds were nesting in places they had abandoned for centuries

A daring mission to rid South Georgia Island of invasive rats, which had devastated native seabird colonies for over two centuries, has been declared a resounding success. Launched in 2011, the ambitious project utilised helicopters to distribute bait across the remote sub-Antarctic outpost. By 2018, the island was declared rodent-free,…

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23,000-year-old footprints in White Sands are rewriting the story of the first humans in the Americas

In the scrubby expanse of White Sands National Park in New Mexico, a set of impressions pressed into ancient mud has continued to unsettle assumptions about when people first moved through the Americas. The markings, preserved in layers of sediment that later hardened into gypsum, were first described in a…

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What Humpback Whales Are Communicating Through Their Songs and Who Is Listening in the Ocean

The song is not random noiseA single humpback whale singing in the North Pacific can produce a sound sequence lasting up to 30 minutes, then repeat it almost exactly. Over weeks, the song changes, new phrases inserted, old ones dropped, and every male in the same ocean basin makes the…

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America's Yellowstone ravens don't follow wolves to find food; scientists found they navigate to places where wolves are most likely to leave fresh carcasses, even when no wolves are present

Ravens, long thought to simply follow wolves for meals, exhibit remarkable memory and planning. New research reveals these intelligent birds revisit known kill sites independently, demonstrating sophisticated spatial memory and foraging strategies. They travel significant distances to these reliable food sources, showcasing a deeper understanding of their environment than previously…

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Science news this week: James Webb telescope finds a never-before-seen substance, China's 'Great Green Wall' grows faster than natural trees, and a Medici murder mystery is solved

July 4, 2026: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.

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The Ancient Vedic Breathwork Practice That Rewires the Anxious Mind Better Than Therapy

You Have Been Breathing Wrong Your Entire LifeNot incorrectly, exactly. But shallowly. Quickly. In the chest, not the belly. When anxiety arrives, your breath shortens before your mind has even named what it's afraid of. The body knows first. This is the thing pranayama understood before there was a word…

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Scientists propose launching a giant 'airbag' into space to protect us from solar superstorms ‪— and experts say it's 'quite feasible'

A new study suggests creating a satellite constellation, dubbed StormWall, that could reduce the impacts of the worst solar storms by more than 50%. The novel plan, which involves dumping gas into the magnetosphere, could be the only way to directly protect ourselves from dangerous space weather, experts say.

The Times of India

The Salem witch trials explained: How fear, fungus and panic led to the deaths of 19 innocent people

In the winter of 1692, a nine-year-old girl and her eleven-year-old cousin began having violent fits inside a parsonage in Salem Village, Massachusetts. They screamed, threw objects, contorted their bodies, complained of being bitten and pinched by invisible hands, and reported seeing spectral figures that no one else could see.…

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Science news this week: Life on Mars, weird water and a curious human cousin

June 27, 2026: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.

The Economic Times

Flowering plants may have recruited dinosaurs long before birds or mammals, with hundreds of fossil fruits revealing an ancient seed-spreading strategy

Fossil discoveries in New Mexico reveal that flowering plants were producing large, animal-attracting fruits millions of years earlier than previously believed, potentially as far back as the age of dinosaurs. This challenges the long-held scientific view that such complex reproductive strategies only emerged after the extinction of non-avian dinosaurs. The…

The Economic Times

In 1950, Australia used a virus as a biological weapon against millions of rabbits; scientists just decoded how they fought back, using DNA from a rabbit that once belonged to Charles Darwin

Australia's 1950 introduction of the myxoma virus to control rabbits backfired as evolution intervened. Scientists, analyzing rabbit DNA across 150 years, discovered independent populations in Australia, the UK, and France developed resistance through similar genetic changes. This ongoing arms race sees the virus evolving to suppress immunity, while rabbits gain…

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