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
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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
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
Aug 19, 2026
Brain & Behavior
A December 2025 study of more than 30,000 older adults found that social isolation accelerated cognitive decline whether people felt lonely…
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…
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…
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…
Aug 19, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Psychologists have long known that empathy without enough support can turn into emotional exhaustion
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
Aug 19, 2026
Life
When a human and a dog gaze into each other's eyes, both of them release oxytocin
By Brendan Brown · 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…
Aug 19, 2026
Space
Titan is the only world beyond Earth where you could step outside without a pressure suit
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
Aug 19, 2026