Space
Much of the gold on Earth, in wedding rings and dental fillings and central bank reserve bars, was likely forged when neutron stars…
Aug 10, 2026
August 2026
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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
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
Space
The surface of Venus is more than 200°C hotter than a home oven
By Mal James · Aug 10, 2026
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…
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…
Aug 10, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Avoiding a scene is easier once you know why scenes happen
Aug 10, 2026
Brain & Behavior
True intelligence is not simply faster thinking
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 10, 2026