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…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 16, 2026
August 2026
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Brain & Behavior
Researchers have held real-time conversations with people while they were asleep and dreaming
By Mind & Matter · 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…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 16, 2026
Life
A juvenile bar-tailed godwit flew 13,560 kilometres from Alaska to Tasmania in October 2022 without landing once
By Natural History · Aug 16, 2026
Life
Early Neanderthals were probably striking sparks to make fire in England 400,000 years ago
By Lab Report · Aug 16, 2026
Life
Scientists documented 1,121 previously unknown marine species in a single year
By Natural History · 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
By The Long View · Aug 15, 2026
Space
A comet from another star system arrived in our solar system in July 2025 carrying water ice from a planetary system that formed billions…
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 15, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Nobel laureate James Heckman’s research found that IQ accounts for only around 1–2% of differences in income, while traits such as…
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 15, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Scientists who narrowly missed out on an NIH grant were 6.1% more likely to produce a top-5%-cited paper over the following decade than…
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 15, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Scientists long blamed infantile amnesia on an immature hippocampus that couldn't properly make memories
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 15, 2026