Brain & Behavior
Why people reread familiar novels: research links chosen repetition with nostalgia and self-reflection
Jul 31, 2026
July 2026
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Space
How did a captured wartime rocket fired from a New Mexico desert in 1946 return the first photograph of Earth from above the atmosphere…
Jul 31, 2026
Brain & Behavior
In a 1998 experiment, insulted participants with high plain self-esteem scores showed no extra aggression, but insulted participants who…
Jul 31, 2026
Brain & Behavior
In Groningen, when researchers left a five euro note visible in a mailbox, 13 percent of passersby stole it if the box was clean, and 27…
Jul 31, 2026
Brain & Behavior
When psychologists at the University of Queensland tested 417 people on what underlies charisma, how fast someone answered questions like…
Jul 31, 2026
Earth & Environment
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is not an island of trash
Jul 31, 2026
Life
A 2019 study in Science found North America has lost 2.9 billion breeding birds since 1970, and much of the data behind it came from about…
Jul 31, 2026
Science
Muon g-2 calculations match Fermilab but clash with four decades of collider data
Jul 30, 2026
Social Sciences
Cut marks on adult bone show the cannibalism at Gran Dolina 850,000 years ago was not limited to children and adolescents, and 24 new Homo…
Jul 29, 2026
Brain & Behavior
In 1848 a single accident proved something no one wanted to believe, that the kindest, most reliable person you know is only ever one…
Jul 27, 2026
Uncategorized
Does consciousness collapse the wave function?
By Josh Mitteldorf · Jul 27, 2026
Uncategorized
Exosomes, Hypothalamus, and the Body Clock
By Josh Mitteldorf · Jul 27, 2026
Life
A humpback whale photographed off Brazil in 2003 was identified 22 years later in Australia, 15,100 kilometres away
Jul 25, 2026
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There's a rule that quietly stops the pilot and co-pilot from eating the same meal, and the reason behind it is more unsettling than you'd…
By Kiran Journals · Jul 25, 2026