Brain & Behavior
The most effective manipulation avoids open aggression, because pressure breeds resistance
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 14, 2026
August 2026
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Brain & Behavior
The list of basic life skills every boomer learned by twelve is real as nostalgia and shaky as evidence of decline
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 14, 2026
Space
The Sun's magnetic field flips every 11 years, a turnover so fast that current models struggle to explain how its magnetic flux dissipates…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 14, 2026
Earth & Environment
In 1956, one watt of solar capacity cost about $1,865 in today's money
By The Long View · Aug 14, 2026
Brain & Behavior
The things not to do when you retire cluster around one mistake, treating it as an ending
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 14, 2026
Earth & Environment
At its peak 6,000 years ago, a lake in the Sahara covered roughly 360,000 square kilometres, more than all five Great Lakes combined, yet…
By Mal James · Aug 14, 2026
Brain & Behavior
The art of letting go is less about acceptance than redirection
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 14, 2026
Space
NASA's Curiosity rover has detected methane on Mars dozens of times since 2012, including a spike of 21 parts per billion in 2019. Europe's…
By The Long View · Aug 14, 2026
Space
Apollo 13's crew timed a fourteen-second engine burn with a wristwatch in April 1970 after the lunar module's main guidance computer had…
By Mal James · Aug 14, 2026
Earth & Environment
In 1996 Norway made the first roughly $300 million deposit into its oil fund, and by mid-2026 the fund was worth about $2.3 trillion
By Mal James · Aug 14, 2026
Health
Japanese women have ranked first in global life expectancy for 41 consecutive years, reaching 87.33 years in 2025. Japanese men live nearly…
By The Long View · Aug 14, 2026
Space
Before John Glenn would climb into the capsule that made him the first American to orbit Earth, he asked NASA to have one specific person…
By Daniel Moran · Aug 13, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Telling people about a goal can sometimes give you a premature feeling of progress
By Mind & Matter · Aug 13, 2026
Earth & Environment
The Philippines is the world's largest importer of rice, buying more of the grain from foreign countries each year than any other nation on…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 13, 2026