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
August 2026
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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
Brain & Behavior
Researchers found that generosity doesn't necessarily stop with the person who receives it
Aug 15, 2026
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
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…
Aug 15, 2026
Life
Scientists in July 2026 confirmed a new monkey species in the Congo rainforest
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
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…
Aug 15, 2026
Earth & Environment
A 300-megawatt nuclear reactor running flat-out produces about 2.6 terawatt-hours a year
Aug 15, 2026
Health
The most useful exercise advice after 60 is not about doing more of one thing
Aug 15, 2026