Brain & Behavior
Researchers found that generosity doesn't necessarily stop with the person who receives it
By Mind & Matter · Aug 15, 2026
August 2026
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Space
Voyager 1 is whispering back to Earth with a radio transmitter about as powerful as a refrigerator light bulb, from roughly 16 billion…
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 15, 2026
Health
Dogs can smell some chemicals at concentrations approaching one part per trillion
By The Long View · Aug 15, 2026
Space
In 2016, SpaceX said it would land an uncrewed spacecraft on Mars as soon as 2018. In 2017, Musk moved the first cargo landings to 2022. In…
By The Long View · Aug 15, 2026
Life
Scientists in July 2026 confirmed a new monkey species in the Congo rainforest
By Natural History · Aug 15, 2026
Life
Wild African elephants appear to call each other by individual names, after researchers who recorded hundreds of rumbling calls in Kenya…
By Brendan Brown · Aug 15, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Cutting the jargon is not about dumbing down
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 15, 2026
Life
A Norwegian cave yielded 75,000-year-old polar bear, walrus and bowhead-whale bones, plus the first collared-lemming remains reported from…
By Natural History · Aug 15, 2026
Earth & Environment
A 300-megawatt nuclear reactor running flat-out produces about 2.6 terawatt-hours a year
By The Long View · Aug 15, 2026
Health
The most useful exercise advice after 60 is not about doing more of one thing
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 15, 2026
Life
A kangaroo joey is born after barely a month in the womb, weighing less than a gram and roughly the size of a jellybean
By Natural History · Aug 15, 2026
Brain & Behavior
The saying that social media leaves you defined by your choices is half right
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 15, 2026
Space
Einstein added a cosmological constant to his equations in 1917, later regarded it as one of his great mistakes, and physicists resurrected…
By The Long View · Aug 15, 2026
Brain & Behavior
The signs said to prove you have no life outside work really describe an identity built on a single pillar, and research on self-complexity…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 15, 2026