Features Archive | August 2026

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August 31st
- Crown of Kerch: A 1,600-year-old gold, gem-studded diadem found in the grave of a Hun noblewoman
August 30th
- Something doesn't add up in the Chandelier Cluster, Hubble telescope finds — Space photo of the week
- How many cosmic particles are passing through your body at any moment?
August 29th
- Does water drain in different directions in the Northern and Southern hemispheres?
August 27th
- 'Wildfire smoke is the fastest-growing environmental threat in the US': How a warming world will poison the air we breathe
August 26th
- Diagnostic dilemma: A man tried to self-treat his incontinence by gluing his urethra shut
August 25th
- Rare sunlight trick transforms Pacific island into a giant silver 'magnifying glass' — Earth from space
August 24th
- Front face of a stela: A 1,300-year-old carving of a powerful Maya 'Lady Supreme Warlord' that weighs over 1 ton
August 23rd
- 'Starry Night' telescope photo captures some of the oldest stars in the universe — Space photo of the week
- Do other animals call each other by name?
August 22nd
- 'The greatest unknown was how much energy would be released by the weapon': How scientists prepared for the Trinity nuclear test
- Does tapping on a soda can really stop it from exploding?
August 20th
- Climate change will triple the number of days over 105 F in the US. The health impacts will be dire.
August 19th
- Diagnostic dilemma: A joyful wedding nearly broke a woman's heart in a rare case of 'happy heart syndrome'
August 18th
- Giant underwater plume blasts into swirling cloud 'street' in the East China Sea — Earth from space
August 17th
- Fire-flame vessel: An exquisitely crafted 4,500-year-old pot from a mysterious culture in Japan
August 16th
- Astronomers find water in the harsh environment near the Milky Way's black hole — Space photo of the week
- Which building blocks of life have been found in space, and which haven't?
August 15th
- 'A fine line between reducing stigma and trivialising conditions': Social media, self-diagnosis and the glamorization of ADHD
- Why do cats yowl?
August 13th
- How to see and photograph the partial lunar eclipse on August 27-28
August 12th
- 'No longer will anything seem impossible or marvellous': How an 'immoral, foul-mouthed and violent man' wrote the first eyewitness account of a total solar eclipse
- Diagnostic dilemma: Doctors performed surgery to remove a mass in a woman's gut ‪—‬ and a bug-like creature immediately jumped out
August 11th
- What the US could learn from Japan's incentive for responsible antibiotic use
- Explosive 'Mountain of God' spits out world's fastest-flowing lava — Earth from space
August 10th
- Berlin gold hat: A 3,000-year-old ceremonial headdress that a cult used to track the sun, moon and lunar eclipses
August 9th
- New James Webb telescope image may reveal the true identity of 'little red dots' — Space photo of the week
- Who are the least-contacted people on Earth?
August 8th
- 'These were harder than any other blades, cut sharper and cost more': How ancient Sri Lankans created steel of legends by harnessing monsoons
- What's the difference between sweet potatoes and yams?
August 7th
- Uberaba Geopark: A time capsule from the Late Cretaceous period nestled in Brazil's tropical savanna
August 5th
- Diagnostic dilemma: Man who consulted ChatGPT about cutting out table salt ended up hospitalized with psychosis
August 4th
- World's highest frozen lake shatters along disputed border between China and India ‪—‬ Earth from space
- 'Teach me! Doctor': Meet the pediatrician on a mission to boost parents' knowledge of childhood illnesses
August 3rd
- Did fungi give mammals an evolutionary edge after the dinosaur-killing asteroid hit? New evidence revives a provocative hypothesis
- Rock crystal scraper: 45,000-year-old Neanderthal tool that shows they had an 'eye for beauty of form and color'
August 2nd
- Hubble telescope takes one of the most detailed looks at neighboring Andromeda galaxy ever — Space photo of the week
- 'The apparent chaos of the Anthropocene is turbocharging evolution itself': Plants are finding ways to survive and thrive in the climate crisis — if we let them
- Did Celtic women fight in battle?
August 1st
- Why do cats have 'leg whiskers'?