Health
Older adults with a strong sense of purpose showed measurably slower epigenetic ageing on several DNA-based biological clocks
Aug 16, 2026
August 2026
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Brain & Behavior
Decades of navigating relationships may leave older adults with one ability that ageing often spares
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…
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…
Aug 16, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Across 16 studies and 25,471 people, what adults remembered about their childhood agreed poorly with what had been recorded at the time…
Aug 16, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Researchers have held real-time conversations with people while they were asleep and dreaming
Aug 16, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Across studies with more than 14,000 strangers, people underestimated how often a direct request would get a yes by about half, and the…
Aug 16, 2026
Life
A juvenile bar-tailed godwit flew 13,560 kilometres from Alaska to Tasmania in October 2022 without landing once
Aug 16, 2026
Life
Early Neanderthals were probably striking sparks to make fire in England 400,000 years ago
Aug 16, 2026
Life
Scientists documented 1,121 previously unknown marine species in a single year
Aug 15, 2026
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The Paradoxical Politics of Climate
By Josh Mitteldorf · Aug 15, 2026
Brain & Behavior
When the Soviet Union invaded Finland in the winter of 1939, expecting the country to collapse within weeks, the Finns held out for 105…
By Daniel Moran · Aug 15, 2026
Space
The Sun’s outer atmosphere is roughly 200 times hotter than its visible surface
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 15, 2026
Health
Research suggests runners have a 25 to 40 percent lower risk of premature death and live roughly three years longer than non-runners
Aug 15, 2026