The 75-year-old Sardinian shepherd Tonino Tola, profiled by National Geographic during Dan Buettner’s original Blue Zones research in the early 2000s, walked at least five miles every day along the ...
Fine filaments and root hairs in topsoil. Arbuscular mycorrhizal hyphae themselves are far thinner — 10 to 50 times narrower than a human hair. It would also stretch a little over a tenth of the way ...
An 1835 lithograph depicting the New York Sun’s fictitious lunar discoveries. Library of Congress (Popular Graphic Arts collection), public domain. On August 25, 1835, the New York Sun began telling ...
Major Taylor at the Velodrome Buffalo, Paris, around 1908. Photo by Agence Rol, public domain (via Wikimedia Commons). Illustrating the paced competition racing Norman Triplett analyzed. In 1898 a ...
Cyanobacteria bloom in a shallow Michigan lake during the fall of 2024. Photo by Leon Katona. Public domain (USGS). In the summer of 2024, a small lake in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan was ...
The claim is arithmetically correct, and that is the least interesting thing about it. If every atom in every human body on Earth were stripped of its electron shells and crushed until the nuclei ...
Two and a bit tonnes of snapped rock, stacked into neat circles, in a chamber that has never once seen daylight. Nobody has worked out why. Bruniquel Cave sits above the Aveyron gorges in the ...
A registered beefalo, the bison-cattle breed at the centre of the study. Credit: Karl Young, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. A bull called Joe’s Pride changed hands in 1975 for $2.5 million. His ...
Two researchers at the European Space Agency have run an AI tool across nearly 100 million cropped images from the Hubble Space Telescope archive and come back with a shortlist of unusual objects, ...
Giant sunspot on the solar disk imaged by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory on 24 October 2014 — thematic full-disk sunspot imagery. Credit: NASA/SDO, public domain. That number matters because of ...
On the night of August 1, 1969, a green pulse of light left a telescope at the Lick Observatory in California, travelled a quarter of a million miles to the Sea of Tranquillity, struck a ...
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