Is Expensive Bottled Water Actually Better for You?
Wiredby Megan Tomos23 Aug 2026
Water is supposed to be the simplest thing we consume. The premium bottled water industry has transformed it into something that requires a backstory.
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top 71%Lunar eclipse August 2026: Will it be visible from India?
The Hinduby The Hindu Bureau23 Aug 2026
The world is scheduled to witness a lunar eclipse soon with almost 96% coverage of the moon’s surface, which will give the celestial body a deep red hue.
Curiosity Blog, Sols 4982–4987: Back to Our Regularly Scheduled Programming - NASA Science
NASAby Stephen Carney; Mars Science Laboratory Mission Team Members23 Aug 2026
By Allison Dries-Padilla, Missions Operations Specialist at Malin Space Science Systems Earth planning date: Friday, Aug.
The 19th-century Indians who nurtured a self-reliant scientific culture in colonial India
Scroll.inby Subha Das Mollick23 Aug 2026
One afternoon in 1907, a young accountant named Chandrasekhar Venkata Raman walked into the laboratory of the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science at 210 Bowbazar Street in Calcutta.
Scientists turn tiny “defects” into a 5.5x heat transfer boost
ScienceDaily23 Aug 2026
Scientists turn tiny “defects” into a 5.5x heat transfer boost Scientists turned tiny surface “defects” into an advantage, creating a coating that can boost condensation heat transfer by up to 5.5...
Cannabis use linked to 37% higher stroke risk in massive study
ScienceDaily23 Aug 2026
Cannabis use linked to 37% higher stroke risk in massive study - Date: - August 23, 2026 - Source: - University of Cambridge - Summary: - A massive analysis involving more than 100 million people...
British corporation continued trafficking of enslaved Africans to Guyana 40 years after abolition
The Guardianby Chris Osuh Community affairs correspondent23 Aug 2026
When Britain abolished slavery, plantation owners from powerful families notoriously received huge sums in compensation, while those who were enslaved got nothing.
Carl Wunsch, oceanographer: ‘The consequences of Trump are terrible. Funding is denied because, apparently, all of our research is a hoax’
El País Englishby Selva Vargas Reátegui23 Aug 2026
In the late 1960s, oceanographer Carl Wunsch was teaching at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)... but calculations being made from a classroom were proving insufficient.
This common vitamin was linked to 13% better cognitive scores
Neuroscience News -- ScienceDaily23 Aug 2026
This common vitamin was linked to 13% better cognitive scores - Date: - August 23, 2026 - Source: - Emory University - Summary: - Older adults with mild cognitive impairment and sleep problems who...
Black holes keep tearing these stars apart, but they survive
ScienceDaily23 Aug 2026
Black holes keep tearing these stars apart, but they survive A star’s rapid spin may explain why repeated encounters with a supermassive black hole produce ever-dimmer flashes of light.
Moon phase today explained: What the Moon will look like on August 23, 2026
Mashableby Lois Mackenzie23 Aug 2026
The Moon is getting closer to the Full Moon, with more than half of its surface illuminated tonight.
This shark can live 400 years. Its eyes barely seem to age
ScienceDaily23 Aug 2026
This shark can live 400 years. Its eyes barely seem to age The 400-year-old Greenland shark may hold surprising secrets to keeping eyes healthy for a lifetime.
Quitting alcohol may prime the brain for relapse
ScienceDaily23 Aug 2026
Quitting alcohol may prime the brain for relapse - Date: - August 22, 2026 - Source: - The Conversation - Summary: - Mice that developed compulsive drinking after alcohol abstinence showed more...
Scientists Discover a Bizarre New Way Life Can Make DNA... Without DNA
ScienceAlertby Michelle Starr23 Aug 2026
To replicate information, life usually has fairly straightforward ways of doing things. To copy DNA, you generally use DNA as a template.
In Search of Black Gold
New Indian Expressby Teja Lele23 Aug 2026
A round a freshly dug hole at Beltana Farm, the knobbly black truffle is passed from hand to hand. Only moments earlier, it was hidden beneath the roots of an oak tree.
Violin star reveals dad's fear over her 25-year age gap with husband
Mail Onlineby Peter Robertson22 Aug 2026
- See more Daily Mail on Google - save us as a Preferred Source Scottish violinist Nicola Benedetti has revealed her father found it hard to accept she was settling down with a man 25 years her...
Journey of the dark crystal stranger than fiction
PerthNowby Stephanie Gardiner22 Aug 2026
Journey of the dark crystal stranger than fiction Tiny clear crystals that could unlock the secrets of the universe sit in a tightly-sealed box, safe from a hostile world that threatens to...
Science Weighs in on Whether All Those Photos Are Helping or Hurting Your Memory
ScienceAlertby Michael Irving22 Aug 2026
Chances are, there are thousands of photos on your phone right now – and you probably never look at them. Selfies at parties. Brunch spreads, carefully staged for Instagram.
Could the macadamias hidden in Queensland’s rainforests be the key to saving ‘the world’s finest nut’?
The Guardianby Susan Chenery22 Aug 2026
We are bouncing over a rough, steep gravel road on the hunt for macadamia trees in the wild. Here in the tangled rainforest at Mary’s Creek in Queensland is the macadamia’s main ancestral home.
There Are Fungi in The Ocean, And They May Be Way More Important Than We Realized
ScienceAlertby Jess Cockerill22 Aug 2026
Hidden inside tree trunks, between grains of soil, deep within our bodies, and below our feet, fungi seem to wind their way into everything. But did you know fungi actually live in the ocean, too?