Large dogs lose genetic brakes on jumping genes faster, study finds

Loneliness linked to faster cognitive decline in older adults

Older adults who felt lonelier saw their memory and thinking abilities decline faster, over as long as a decade.

By Chris Jeremia · Oct 16, 2026

Phoenix's deadly heat didn't need extreme humidity to threaten elderly residents

For 31 days in a row in July 2023, Phoenix hit 110°F or more. The air was also very dry, and by the yardstick many climate studies use to…

By Graeme Brown · Oct 16, 2026

Chicago program slashes violent-crime arrests by nearly half among boys

The program roughly halved violent-crime arrests, likely by teaching boys to pause before reacting. But where it was checked, the drop faded once sessions ended.

By Sanchana Charles · Oct 15, 2026

Dogs in bed didn't disrupt sleep tracking, even when owners felt interrupted

Husky and malamute owners showed no significant tracker-measured sleep difference by bed-sharing habit. Twelve of 25 said their dog interrupted their sleep.

By Justin Brown · Oct 14, 2026

Unrecognized surgical genius stood behind the surgeon who took credit for saving blue babies

On the morning of 29 November 1944, in an operating theatre at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, a 15-month-old girl named Eileen Saxon lay waiting for an operation nobody had tried on a patient before.

By Daniel Moran · Oct 14, 2026

Doubling sea otters halved erosion in California's tidal creeks

Data posted with a 2024 Nature study puts numbers on the change in 13 tidal creeks, though the 69 percent figure in a university press release is harder to pin down.

By Chris Jeremia · Oct 13, 2026

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Health

Medicine, public health, and the research that shapes how we stay well.

Melbourne's deadly thunderstorm asthma hit mostly people without diagnosed asthma

By Justin Brown

How a Massachusetts town study rewrote the rules on blood pressure

By Justin Brown

Staying active heals back pain faster than bed rest, study finds

By Justin Brown

Your taste buds completely replace themselves roughly every ten days

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Brain & Behavior

Neuroscience, psychology, and the science of how we think and act.

Palmer Luckey's oxytocin marriage fix lacks any evidence it works

By Justin Brown

Slow breathing makes gamblers bolder, not braver, brain scan shows

By Nato Lagidze

In 1518, Strasbourg hired musicians when a woman danced in the street

By Nato Lagidze

Handwriting activates brain regions for speech and movement when recognizing letters

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Technology

Engineering, computing, and the tools reshaping daily life.

Data centres used 22 percent of Ireland's metered electricity in 2024, up from 5 percent in 2015

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Light bulb that has burned since 1901 has outlasted three webcams watching it

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The world's first webcam spent a decade watching a coffee pot in a Cambridge lab

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Cheese brine waste becomes Wisconsin's secret weapon against icy roads

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Earth & Environment

Climate, energy, ecology, and the systems that keep the planet running.

Virginia's eelgrass meadows have nearly doubled since restoration began

By Justin Brown

Across 20 corn farms in South Dakota, Nebraska, North Dakota and Minnesota, the regenerative fields yielded…

By Justin Brown

Winter bee clusters suffer most on the outside, not the center

By Kiran Journals

Since 2008, the Dutch city of Heerlen has used water in its flooded former coal mines to heat and cool…

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Life

Biology, animals, plants, and life beyond the human story.

Ancient Scottish fossil reveals unexpected early branch point in vertebrate evolution

By Chris Jeremia

Dogs align with Earth's magnetic field to defecate, but only when it's stable

By Science Blog Editorial Team

Golden jackals are naturally spreading from the Balkans deep into Western Europe

By Kiran Journals