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44 discoveries published so far

October 16, 2026 Dogs seem to hear "bouba" as round and "kiki" as spiky In a study in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, animal behaviorists brought 51 dogs and their owners into a room with a rounded figure on one wall and a spiky one on the other, then played a human voice saying "bouba" and "kiki".
October 15, 2026 A fossil that sat in a drawer for a century turns out to be Europe's first megaraptoran A rear piece of a skull found on the Isle of Wight and acquired by the Natural History Museum in 1924 has been named Invictibellatrix amberina by a UCL-led team, publishing in Royal Society Open Science.
October 7, 2026 A cubic kilometer of Antarctic ice wins the physics Nobel Francis Halzen of the University of Wisconsin, Madison won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin.
October 5, 2026 A digital pencil rubbing may show a woman ruled Egypt 5,000 years ago Meretneith lived more than 5,000 years ago.
October 3, 2026 Why a good high can flip into panic Northwestern neuroscientists have pinpointed a group of cells that decides whether cannabinoids soothe or alarm.
October 1, 2026 Your voice carries a clock for how fast your brain is aging Researchers at Trinity College Dublin's Global Brain Health Institute recorded 2,928 Spanish-speaking adults across five Latin American countries and fed hundreds of acoustic and linguistic measures into a machine-learning model: pitch, pause length, speech rate, semantic precision, syntax.

Progress like this happens every day.