Science
Roman concrete piers built two thousand years ago along the Mediterranean coast are stronger now than the day they were poured, because…
By The Long View · Aug 16, 2026
August 2026
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Brain & Behavior
People form judgments about a stranger’s trustworthiness and competence after seeing their face for just one-tenth of a second
By Mind & Matter · Aug 16, 2026
Technology
We tend to picture the Sahara as an eternal desert, but sediment cores and cave paintings show that as recently as 6,000 years ago it was a…
By The Long View · Aug 16, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Quote by Viktor Frankl: Between stimulus and response there is a space, in that space is our power to choose our response, and in our…
By Mind & Matter · Aug 16, 2026
Earth & Environment
We assume the deepest parts of the ocean are dark and empty, but the walls of the Mariana Trench hold snailfish drifting five miles down…
By Natural History · Aug 16, 2026
Science
In 1859, a geomagnetic storm now called the Carrington Event lit up auroras bright enough to read a newspaper by in the Caribbean, set…
By The Long View · Aug 16, 2026
Science
A coastal redwood named Hyperion stands 115.9 metres tall in a hidden fold of Redwood National Park, taller than the Statue of Liberty, and…
By The Long View · Aug 16, 2026
Health
Morning sunlight can reset the body clock surprisingly quickly because outdoor light is vastly brighter than most indoor environments
By The Long View · Aug 16, 2026
Life
Scientists have reconstructed the dodo's brain from CT scans of its skull and found an oversized smell centre and forward-facing, owl-like…
By Brendan Brown · Aug 16, 2026
Technology
Waymo's robotaxis have now completed more than 20 million paid rides
By Brendan Brown · Aug 16, 2026
Health
Older adults with a strong sense of purpose showed measurably slower epigenetic ageing on several DNA-based biological clocks
By The Long View · Aug 16, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Decades of navigating relationships may leave older adults with one ability that ageing often spares
By Mind & Matter · Aug 16, 2026
Brain & Behavior
A divorce-prediction equation was 90 percent accurate on the data it was built from, but when it flagged a couple as heading for divorce in…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 16, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Some people in their 80s remember as well as people in their 50s and 60s, and a 2026 Nature study found something extraordinary in their…
By Mind & Matter · Aug 16, 2026