Brain & Behavior
The people who leave you flattened are draining you in three specific, measurable ways, and the science of why holds an uncomfortable…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 20, 2026
August 2026
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Life
The most expensive wool on Earth doesn't come from a farm, but from a wild Andean animal called the vicuña, hunted to a few thousand by the…
By Natural History · Aug 20, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Admiring a great athlete's skill is one thing, but treating them as a hero of general virtue and moral authority is a different move…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 20, 2026
Life
For decades, paleontologists argued that a small tyrannosaur found in Montana’s Hell Creek Formation was merely a young T. rex
By The Long View · Aug 20, 2026
Brain & Behavior
We tend to think the Stanford Prison Experiment proved good people turn cruel under the right conditions, but a 2019 archival investigation…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 20, 2026
Earth & Environment
For roughly 60 million years, rising and falling seas appear to have helped regulate Earth’s climate through an overlooked feedback
By The Long View · Aug 20, 2026
Life
Crocodiles still live wild in the middle of the Sahara desert, trapped there since the desert itself used to be green
By Natural History · Aug 20, 2026
Technology
Norway is preparing to cut a tunnel through a mountain so ships can avoid one of its most dangerous coastal waters
By Daniel Moran · Aug 19, 2026
Earth & Environment
In Venezuela, a lake roughly the size of Connecticut experiences thunderstorms on nearly 300 nights a year, with lightning sometimes…
By The Long View · Aug 19, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Finnish children usually do not begin formal school until the year they turn seven, yet Finland became an education model by producing…
By The Long View · Aug 19, 2026
Earth & Environment
In 2025, scientists drilling beneath the Atlantic off New England pumped up about 50,000 litres of remarkably fresh groundwater
By The Long View · Aug 19, 2026
Psychology
Cultures that still protect an afternoon rest period aren't fighting biology, they're working with it
By Nato Lagidze · Aug 19, 2026
Brain
Studies of rural Korean centenarians suggest that many of the longest-lived women did not retire from daily life so much as remain woven…
By Daniel Moran · Aug 19, 2026
Brain & Behavior
The Korean concept of 'nunchi' teaches people to read a room before they speak, but for many women it carries a cost that social grace…
By Daniel Moran · Aug 19, 2026