Life
Bulls aren't enraged by red — they're red-green colour blind, and it's the movement of the cape that triggers the charge
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 19, 2026
August 2026
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Brain & Behavior
A December 2025 study of more than 30,000 older adults found that social isolation accelerated cognitive decline whether people felt lonely…
By Mind & Matter · Aug 19, 2026
Earth & Environment
The Great Simplification predicts globalization receding into local production, and world trade did fall from 62.1 percent of global output…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 19, 2026
Science
In 1991, two hikers in the Ötztal Alps found a body sticking out of the melting ice and assumed it was a recent climber, but the corpse…
By The Long View · Aug 19, 2026
Brain & Behavior
For decades, biologists assumed the brain's immune system replenished itself from birth, sealed off from the rest of the body by the…
By Mind & Matter · Aug 19, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Psychologists have long known that empathy without enough support can turn into emotional exhaustion
By Mind & Matter · Aug 19, 2026
Space
The computer that guided Apollo 11 to the Moon had only about 4 kilobytes of working memory and a processor running at roughly 1 MHz
By Lab Report · Aug 19, 2026
Life
In the spring of 2022, a Cornell lab technician who'd been parking for free near an Ithaca cemetery and cutting through it on her walk to…
By Natural History · Aug 19, 2026
Space
Titan is the only world beyond Earth where you could step outside without a pressure suit
By The Long View · Aug 19, 2026
Physics
Two and a half kilometres beneath the Antarctic ice, a cubic kilometre of frozen water has been wired with 5,160 light sensors, turning the…
By Brendan Brown · Aug 19, 2026
Technology
Singapore ranked first in Counterpoint Research’s 2025 Global AI Cities Index, ahead of Seoul, Beijing and San Francisco
By The Long View · Aug 19, 2026
Brain & Behavior
The human brain is so desperate to find patterns that it will reliably see faces in clouds, hear words in static, and detect meaning in…
By Kiran Journals · Aug 19, 2026
Life
Somewhere between 18 and 35 percent of people sneeze when they step into bright sunlight, but nobody has established how light hitting the…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 19, 2026
Brain & Behavior
The case for regular travel is usually made in the language of bucket lists, but the evidence points to something more everyday
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 19, 2026