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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.
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If you compressed Earth's entire atmosphere down to sea-level density, it would form a shell only about eight kilometres thick around a planet with a radius of 6,371 kilometres - thinner, proportionally, than the skin of an apple SD
Pick up an apple and look at the skin. It's so thin you barely notice it as a separate layer, just a taut, shiny film around the fruit. Now scale that up to a planet. The air you're breathing, the air that carries every cloud and storm and jet stream, the
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Singapore treats trees as more than decoration: research shows street shade can measurably cool the air around roads, while tree cover near buildings can reduce the demand for air-conditioning in one of Asia's hottest cities
There is a moment on a Singapore footpath, somewhere around two in the afternoon, when a person would happily hand over their wallet for six metres of canopy. That instinct turns out to be well calibrated. Singapore has spent six decades planting trees wi
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A 2026 analysis of 488,765 people followed for as long as 32 years found that a stronger sense of purpose in life was associated with about a 30 per cent lower risk of earlier death
The reading almost everyone reaches for first is the one to be careful with: find a purpose, live longer. It is tidy, hopeful, and it turns a statistical link into a personal instruction. The study behind the number does not actually say that, and the res
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A fragment of fossil thigh bone was the only piece carrying this specimen's collection number, and losing it hid where the animal came from for more than 20 years - until the fragment resurfaced in a Porto Alegre university collection and the three bones proved to be a Middle Triassic reptile new to science
Three bones sat in the fossil collection at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, in Porto Alegre, with no verifiable record of where they had come from. A left shoulder blade, a right hip and a left thigh bone, found in association w
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A study of Norwegian conscripts found 20th century IQ gains reversed after 1975
A massive study of Norwegian conscripts reveals that IQ scores, which climbed steadily for a century, have been falling sharply since the 1970s-and the culprit isn't in our genes.
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