Serious presentation. Deeply questionable conclusions.
Researchers have separated Europe's Ganoderma lucidum from the East Asian medicinal lingzhi, lineages that diverged at least 16 million years ago. The name has been doing the work of both since 1781.
Portia fimbriata hangs upside down in a small web at night. Researchers recorded leg curls, eye movements and twitching, then tried a loud noise.
The Lycurgus Cup turns from jade green to ruby red when lit from behind. Replicating it took gold and silver nanocrystals, and the original took a furnace with a view of its own.
The London Register of Subsurface CO2 Storage now covers 70 projects in 17 countries. Its 2026 report also restates the past, which is where part of the record came from.
An anonymous note in Nature in 1871 blamed a magnetic storm for delaying a train. The railway line it names had not been built.
A braincase from the Isle of Wight sat in London for more than a century before anyone recognised it. It belongs to the first megaraptoran known from Europe.
A study of more than 7,500 historical forecasts finds that one-year predictions hold up when they start from La Nina and fail when they start from neutral conditions.
Sixty-seven designs were tested and four worked. The best converted 79 per cent of a bulky amine while declining to react with the water around it.
Radiocarbon dating puts the skeleton inside the fourth-century sarcophagus some six centuries after the man named on it. The lid was recut with an Anglo-Saxon cross and later used as a floor slab.
A Tufts study of 30,000 adults finds intake steady at about 13 ounces a day from 2003 to 2018, while calories rose from 43 to 60. Non-dairy creamer has overtaken sugar and milk.
NASA's rover took the off-world distance record on 11 October, its 2,006th Martian day. Its original mission specified less than half as far.
Vilnius University researchers report stable performance from perovskite laser structures. The headline figure is a floor rather than a ceiling.
Five papers in The Astrophysical Journal report the primordial helium abundance three times more precisely than before, from 130 hours of observing 15 pristine galaxies.