Space
In 1859 the Carrington storm shocked telegraph operators and pushed auroras to Cuba
By The Long View · Aug 11, 2026
August 2026
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Brain & Behavior
Why older adults often have smaller social circles
By Mind & Matter · Aug 11, 2026
Uncategorized
Trump signed an executive order Monday calling for the MMR vaccine to be split into three separate shots and for childhood immunizations to…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 11, 2026
Brain & Behavior
An eight-week trial asked 60 older adults to take 15-minute walks
By Mind & Matter · Aug 11, 2026
Space
ISS crews see 16 sunrises each day, but their bodies do not adopt a 90-minute clock
By Mind & Matter · Aug 11, 2026
Technology
The treadmill entered British prisons around 1818 as hard labor, but the modern fitness machine was not merely rebranded punishment
By The Long View · Aug 11, 2026
Physics
Earth's quietest room measured -24.9 dBA, low enough for visitors to hear their own bodies, but the claim that nobody can last an hour is…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 11, 2026
Earth & Environment
During the 2017 eclipse, giraffes stampeded, Galápagos tortoises started mating, gibbons sang unfamiliar songs, and gorillas quietly got…
By Kiran Journals · Aug 11, 2026
Physics
In a room of 23 people there is a 50.7% chance that two share a birthday, because the room contains 253 possible pairs rather than 23…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 11, 2026
Brain & Behavior
In 1972, American basketball players did something that had never happened at an Olympics before or since
By Daniel Moran · Aug 11, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Søren Kierkegaard believed the deepest despair in life isn't unhappiness
By Daniel Moran · Aug 11, 2026
Space
For the first time in history, oxygen was produced on the surface of another planet
By Daniel Moran · Aug 11, 2026
Life
The familiar claim that only five species undergo menopause is out of date
By Natural History · Aug 11, 2026
Brain & Behavior
By the time Cleopatra was born, the Great Pyramid was already more than two thousand years old
By Daniel Moran · Aug 11, 2026