Life
A lion’s roar can travel eight kilometres across open savanna, but it is not only a war cry
By Daniel Moran · Aug 20, 2026
August 2026
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Health
People who drink their coffee in the morning and then stop may be onto something
Aug 20, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Thought of the day from Stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius
Aug 20, 2026
Earth & Environment
Earth has already lived through five mass extinctions, each wiping out a huge share of the planet's species
By Daniel Moran · Aug 20, 2026
Life
For decades, the standard claim was that bacteria in your body outnumbered your own cells ten to one
Aug 20, 2026
Earth & Environment
In the 1980s the US Navy trained belugas to dive past a thousand feet through freezing water and find test torpedoes with no tracking…
Aug 20, 2026
Space
The fastest spacecraft ever built didn't set its record by firing a rocket engine
Aug 20, 2026
Health
The naked mole rat can live more than 40 years
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 20, 2026
Life
More than 10 million years ago, South America had saber-toothed mammals, terror birds and giant snakes
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 20, 2026
Brain & Behavior
The famous claim that standing like a superhero floods you with hormones was debunked, even by its own author, but a smaller and sturdier…
Aug 20, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Researchers tracked 12 people through a ten-month Antarctic isolation experiment expecting loneliness to be the problem
By Brendan Brown · Aug 20, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Raw mental speed peaks in your twenties, but a large new analysis found that overall psychological functioning
By Brendan Brown · Aug 20, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Thought of the day from Stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius
By Mal James · Aug 20, 2026
Health
Aerobic capacity typically falls about 5–10% per decade after early adulthood, but that decline is far from fixed
Aug 20, 2026