Space
The surface of Venus is more than 200°C hotter than a home oven
By Mal James · Aug 10, 2026
August 2026
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Earth & Environment
In 1977, a Saudi prince paid to tow a chunk of Alaskan iceberg to a conference in landlocked Iowa, serving guests 4,000-year-old ice in…
By Brendan Brown · Aug 10, 2026
Health
Roger Fielding's lab at Tufts followed the same older adults for ten years and found their individual muscle fibers still generated just as…
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 10, 2026
Life
In 1933, a laborer building a bridge in northern China dug up a huge fossilized human skull and hid it in a well, telling no one for 85…
By Brendan Brown · Aug 10, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Whitehall II tracked 3,433 British civil servants for up to 14 years on either side of retirement and found verbal memory declined 38…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 10, 2026
Technology
Future cars may double as grid batteries, but only 22 current models can send power back
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 10, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Psychology has actually mapped what makes a person difficult and defiant, a cluster of antagonistic traits and a reflex to resist any rule…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 10, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Avoiding a scene is easier once you know why scenes happen
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 10, 2026
Brain & Behavior
True intelligence is not simply faster thinking
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 10, 2026
Earth & Environment
Solar added a record 600 terawatt-hours of electricity in 2025 and supplied more than 8 percent of the global total, but the next…
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 10, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Rather than a list of forbidden phrases, the research points to two things parents are wiser not to say as a habit
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 10, 2026
Health
No habit can promise to keep dementia away, but the largest expert review to date estimates that up to 45 percent of cases could in…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 10, 2026
Health
In one study, 138 first-time marathoners had aortas that appeared four years younger after six months of training, but the result does not…
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 10, 2026
Earth & Environment
Earth has five named oceans, but they form one connected system covering 71 percent of the planet, moving heat, carbon, and nutrients…
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 9, 2026