Tuesday August 4, 2026


August 4, 1884 - March 18, 1941


Henri Cornet - Won the 1904 Tour de France


The bicycle will one day attract many famous people.


The Tour de France will continue well into the next century.



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Astronomy in the News


Astronomy Index


Astronomers Find Ancient Black Holes Shining With the Power of a Trillion Suns


Meteorite That Smashed Through a New Jersey Roof Hid an Ancient Chemical Secret


Moonquakes could help scientists find buried lunar ice and reveal where Earth's water came from.


Rocks From the Moon's Far Side Are Rewriting Lunar History


Giant waves are sweeping Mars' atmosphere into space


NASA's Curiosity Finds a Vast Sea of Mysterious Polygons on Mars




Physics in the News


Physics


Strange quantum experiment shows 'negative time' is more than an illusion


Physicists Shatter Quantum Entanglement Distance Record With 420 Kilometers of Optical Fiber


All four major LHC experiments have found new evidence that collisions between oxygen and neon may produce the extreme state of matter that existed during the first microseconds after the Big Bang.


Large Hadron Collider





Chemistry in the News


Chemistry ~ ~ Metallurgy ~ ~ Minerals


Scientists just 3D printed one of the hardest metals on Earth - tungsten carbide cobalt





Math in the News


Mathematics


Mathematicians prove perfectly fair elections are impossible





Technology in the News


Artificial Intelligence ~ ~ Technology


Noninvasive AI-based system translates brain signals into written text


Quantum Photons Survive a 24-Kilometer Journey Through Chicago's Busy Internet


Physicists have now demonstrated that unusual quantum objects called non-Abelian anyons can provide that versatility by supporting the full range of operations required for universal quantum computing.





Health in the News


Health Files ~ Alternative Healing


Scientists Have Found The Brain Circuit Behind Misophonia's 'Rage Response' - a severe reaction to everyday sounds such as chewing or sniffing


Experimental Eye Drops Restore Sight in Blind Mice





Brain in the News


Brain Index


Speaking More Languages May Slow Brain Aging


Scientists Have Found The Brain Circuit Behind Misophonia's 'Rage Response' - a severe reaction to everyday sounds such as chewing or sniffing


Are Artificial Sweeteners Really Worse For Your Brain Than Sugar? An Epidemiologist Explains


Unexpected Structure Detected in The Brains Of Humans And Mice With Alzheimer's Disease





Planet Earth In the News


Planet Earth Index ~ Earth Changes Index


Ancient Arctic carbon is pouring into the sea, but the seabed captures most of it


Ancient Arctic carbon is pouring into the sea, but the seabed captures most of it


Scientists went looking for giant trees in Taiwan and found a lost world





Extinction In the News


Extinction


Earth's Biggest Mass Extinction Reveals Chilling Parallels to Today's World





Wildfires In the News


Wildfires


Ongoing Global Wildfires Summer of 2026


Updated 8/3/26




Oceanography in the News


Oceanography Index


AI reveals a massive algae boom across the world's oceans which leads to ...


Some coastal cities are sinking faster than the ocean is rising





Antarctica In the News


Antarctica - Science and Pseudoscience


'Unique Refuge': A Lost Sea May Still Be Alive Beneath Antarctica's Eerie Blood Falls


Scientists uncover big clue as to how Antarctica's mysterious Blood Falls came to be


Ancient Microorganisms Discovered Inside One of Antarctica's Most Inhospitable Landmarks


Scientists Find a Hidden 'Fish City' Beneath Antarctica's Ice





Thoth in the News


Thoth, the ancient Egyptian god of the moon had two very different faces - a crescent-beaked white bird and a silver-coated baboon. Now, researchers think they may have found the common thread connecting them all.



The Many Faces and Identities of Thoth




Archaeology in the News


Archaeology


Ancient Egyptian Princesses Were Trained Warriors, Their Bones Reveal


Forgotten Autobiography Rewrites the Story of a War of 1812 Soldier


Kenya: A 1.4-million-year-old fossil trail of footprints reveals that a powerful human relative grew nearly as large as us and may have traveled in all-male groups


Australia: Underwater cave bones carry hidden fingerprints that could reveal how extinct giants reached their submerged graveyards.


Scientists Discover an Odd Genetic Trait in an Ancient Aboriginal Food Plant


Scientists Discover an Odd Genetic Trait in an Ancient Aboriginal Food Plant





Paleontology in the News


Paleontology Index


Long-Lost Megalodon Fossils Found Hiding on a Museum Shelf


Microfossils Help Crack Mystery More Than 100 Million Years in the Making














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