Brain & Behavior
There is no single thing women find attractive, but averaged across dozens of cultures the research keeps landing on the same unglamorous…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 11, 2026
August 2026
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Brain & Behavior
A 2024 meta-analysis found a small achievement advantage for handwritten lecture notes, but the headline-making EEG study did not test…
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 11, 2026
Brain & Behavior
People who reread the same books are not refusing novelty
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 11, 2026
Brain & Behavior
A 2025 study in Scientific Reports found that pet owners who leaned on animals as a substitute for human company were not less lonely for it
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 10, 2026
Health
A 2016 study found men aged 20 to 34 had weaker grips than the same-age norms recorded in 1985, but it did not test their fathers and one…
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 10, 2026
Earth & Environment
About 90 million years ago, a temperate rainforest grew just 900 kilometres from the South Pole
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 10, 2026
Technology
When the Apollo 11 guidance software developed under Margaret Hamilton's leadership began flashing a sequence of 1201 and 1202 alarms more…
By The Long View · Aug 10, 2026
Technology
Data centers used 1.5 percent of global electricity in 2024, but AI is driving demand into concentrated clusters where the IEA says one in…
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 10, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Two independent speed-dating studies, one with 763 participants and one with 175, found that measured intelligence did not predict how…
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 10, 2026
Space
Much of the gold on Earth, in wedding rings and dental fillings and central bank reserve bars, was likely forged when neutron stars…
By The Long View · Aug 10, 2026
Biology
Sharks have existed for roughly 450 million years, and for the first 60 million of them, there wasn't a single tree anywhere on the planet
By Daniel Moran · Aug 10, 2026
Earth & Environment
Suzanne Simard's 1997 experiment really did find carbon moving between tree species through shared fungal threads, but the much more famous…
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 10, 2026
Brain & Behavior
The research on overthinking points to one specific shift that helps more than telling yourself to stop
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 10, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Cognitive scientists have a precise name for the strange blankness of finishing a page and realizing you retained none of it
By Daniel Moran · Aug 10, 2026