Brain & Behavior
Jealousy feels like it is guarding the relationship, but the research suggests it is largely futile
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 19, 2026
August 2026
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Health
Researchers followed more than 71,000 people and found that the most optimistic were up to 70% more likely to live past 85 than the least…
By The Long View · Aug 19, 2026
Health
Bone health is the part of your body almost nobody thinks about until something breaks, but the science on why it matters and what actually…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 19, 2026
Brain & Behavior
No other animal is known to blush from embarrassment, and you can't simply fake or suppress it
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 19, 2026
Physics
The bubbles in a settling pint of Guinness really do travel downwards, and it is not a trick of the eye
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 19, 2026
Brain & Behavior
A psychologist went to Arctic Norway expecting two months of winter darkness to make people miserable
By Mind & Matter · Aug 19, 2026
Life
In 1968, a researcher built a mouse paradise
By Daniel Moran · Aug 19, 2026
Life
Chimpanzees in West Africa have been seen carrying their dead for weeks, grooming the body, chasing away flies, and sitting close to the…
By Daniel Moran · Aug 19, 2026
Brain & Behavior
A 2025 study found that a partner’s willingness to protect you mattered far more to attraction than their physical strength
By Mind & Matter · Aug 18, 2026
Popular
Your fingers do not wrinkle in the bath simply because the skin soaks up water
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 18, 2026
Health
In a cave in southern Italy in 1963, archaeologists found two skeletons buried in an embrace 12,000 years earlier, one of them long assumed…
By Lab Report · Aug 18, 2026
Brain & Behavior
A year is 20% of a five-year-old's life but only 2% of a 50-year-old's
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 18, 2026
Brain & Behavior
For some older adults, caring for an animal may do more than add walks and routine
By Daniel Moran · Aug 18, 2026
Biology
Researchers found that people who spoke two or more languages developed dementia symptoms about 4.5 years later than those who spoke only…
By Daniel Moran · Aug 18, 2026