Brain & Behavior
Something unusual is happening to young people in the English-speaking West
By Mind & Matter · Aug 17, 2026
August 2026
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Life
The Nicobar pigeon, a flighted bird native to Southeast Asia, is the dodo's closest living relative
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 17, 2026
Life
Humans are mediocre sprinters, but in 36–41°C heat researchers watched a hunter pursue an oryx until the animal's body reached 44°C while…
By Natural History · Aug 17, 2026
Brain & Behavior
The traits we use to spot a future leader, confidence, charisma, the person who commands the room, mostly predict who gets picked, not who…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 17, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Something strange happened to American children after 1990
By Mind & Matter · Aug 17, 2026
Space
For decades, scientists believed Titan hid a vast global ocean beneath its frozen crust
By The Long View · Aug 17, 2026
Earth & Environment
Earth's inner core has begun drifting backward relative to the surface after decades of moving slightly faster
By The Long View · Aug 17, 2026
Space
In December 2025, startup Starcloud trained the first large language model ever trained in orbit, using an NVIDIA H100
By Lab Report · Aug 17, 2026
Earth & Environment
The Amazon is often called “the lungs of the Earth,” but a mature rainforest's net oxygen contribution is close to zero
By The Long View · Aug 17, 2026
Life
There is a ligament in the back of your neck that seems to be part of humanity's ancient running equipment
By Natural History · Aug 16, 2026
Space
More than 60 percent of all meteorites ever found on Earth came from Antarctica
By Mind & Matter · Aug 16, 2026
Technology
At the bottom of the Black Sea, below about 150 metres, the water contains no oxygen at all, and shipwrecks preserved in that dead zone…
By Natural History · Aug 16, 2026
Science
When Friedrich Miescher isolated a strange phosphorus-rich substance from the pus-soaked bandages of wounded soldiers in a Tübingen…
By The Long View · Aug 16, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Being needed and being loved can feel similar, especially when family roles begin to change
By Mind & Matter · Aug 16, 2026