September 1, 2025 2 min read The Primal Pull of People Watching Our social voyeurism may have deep evolutionary roots By Clarissa Brincat edited by Sarah Lewin Frasier Whitworth Images/Getty Images The human fascination with watching others—whether through reality TV, Instagram stories or overheard drama—is often dismissed as nosiness. But…
Rare Medieval Gold Object Unearthed At Birdoswald Roman Fort In Northumberland
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.om – An archaeology student, who was unable to participate in Newcastle University’s excavations at Birdoswald Roman fort with Historic England last year due to illness, had a fortunate turn of events this year. Birdoswald Roman Fort, Hadrian’s Wall. Credit: David Dixon – CC BY-SA 2.0 Within…
Why a group of Catholics urged Congress to take climate action » Yale Climate Connections
Transcript: For many Catholics, the importance of fighting climate change was articulated a decade ago in the late Pope Francis’s groundbreaking letter “Laudato Si’.” To mark the letter’s 10th anniversary, a group of Catholics from across the country made a pilgrimage to Washington, D.C. In Laudato Si’, Francis emphasized that…
The best new science fiction books of September 2025 by authors including Cixin Liu and John Scalzi
In Mason Coile’s Exiles, a human crew arrive on Mars Shutterstock/Gorodenkoff There are some sci-fi heavy hitters with new novels out this month, from Cixin Liu and Stephen Baxter to John Scalzi. I’m keen to check out Ian McEwan’s venture to a flooded version of 2119 – a drowned-world trope…
NASA finds Titan’s alien lakes may be creating primitive cells
NASA research has shown that cell-like compartments called vesicles could form naturally in the lakes of Saturn’s moon Titan. Titan is the only world apart from Earth that is known to have liquid on its surface. However, Titan’s lakes and seas are not filled with water. Instead, they contain liquid…
‘If they drill, expect a spill’: ConocoPhillips can’t be trusted to drill for gas off the Victorian coast
MELBOURNE, Monday 1 September 2025 — Following disturbing allegations multinational oil and gas corporation ConocoPhillips covered up a methane leak at an LNG export hub in Darwin, Greenpeace Australia Pacific says the fossil fuel giant, which is currently test drilling for gas in the Otway Basin, can’t be trusted to…
NASA’s x-ray telescope finds bizarre features in a cosmic hand
In 2009, NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory released a captivating image: a pulsar and its surrounding nebula that is shaped like a hand. i> X-rays from Chandra have been combined with radio data obtained by the Australian Telescope Compact Array to reveal new structures. At the center of this image is…
Scientists reveal breakthrough blood pressure treatment that works when others fail
A new treatment has been shown to significantly lower blood pressure in people whose levels stay dangerously high, despite taking several existing medicines, according to the results of a Phase III clinical trial led by a UCL Professor. Globally around 1.3 billion people have high blood pressure (hypertension), and in…
AI Spots Hidden Signs of Consciousness in Comatose Patients before Doctors Do
August 31, 2025 3 min read AI Spots Hidden Signs of Consciousness in Comatose Patients before Doctors Do A machine-learning algorithm spotted signs of “covert consciousness” in coma patients—in some cases, days before doctors could do so By Andrew Chapman edited by Allison Parshall Design Cells/Science Source Imagine lying in…
Beet juice secretly helps older adults lower blood pressure in just two weeks
The blood pressure lowering effect of nitrate-rich beetroot juice in older people may be due to specific changes in their oral microbiome, according to the largest study of its kind. Researchers at the University of Exeter conducted the study, published in the journal Free Radical Biology and Medicine, comparing responses…