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…
Aug 18, 2026
August 2026
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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
Life
In a Duke University experiment, spotted hyenas were given a rope-pulling task requiring two animals to coordinate without prior training
Aug 18, 2026
Brain & Behavior
A 2015 study found that verbal intelligence uniquely predicted both worry and rumination
Aug 18, 2026
Life
A male lion spends much of his life resting and may even displace lionesses from kills they caught
Aug 18, 2026
Popular
A sheet of paper is about a tenth of a millimetre thick, but doubling it only twenty-seven times builds a stack taller than Mount Everest
Aug 18, 2026
Health
A Mayo Clinic AI re-analysed CT scans that had originally been read as normal
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 18, 2026
Life
A lion’s heart makes up only about half a percent of its body weight. A spotted hyena’s is close to one percent
Aug 18, 2026
Physics
A fully loaded jumbo jet can glide at essentially the same angle as an empty one after losing all its engines
Aug 18, 2026
Earth & Environment
The advantages of slow travel are not mainly about virtue
Aug 18, 2026
Physics
Every time a raindrop sticks and slips as it runs down a surface, it can generate a tiny electrical charge
Aug 18, 2026
Earth & Environment
If West Antarctica's ice sheet collapsed, the U.S. East Coast would gain more than the coast nearest the ice
Aug 18, 2026