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
August 2026
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Brain & Behavior
Rather than a list of forbidden phrases, the research points to two things parents are wiser not to say as a habit
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…
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
Brain & Behavior
Why retirement can make the question 'What do you do?' unexpectedly difficult
Aug 9, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Quote by Anne Lamott: Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you
Aug 9, 2026
Life
In 2016, someone walking past a drying pond in Thailand noticed a few strange rocks
By Daniel Moran · Aug 9, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Long before a baby can crawl, walk, or speak a single word, something in its body already seems to know what to fear
By Daniel Moran · Aug 9, 2026
Brain & Behavior
You don't need to be agreeable all the time, and the research explains why
Aug 9, 2026
Life
In 1912, a German meteorologist named Alfred Wegener stood in front of the Geological Association in Frankfurt and argued that the…
Aug 9, 2026
Brain & Behavior
The claim that people over 70 who love solitude are among the happiest in society is half right
Aug 9, 2026
Space
Titan has rivers, rainfall, lakes and a slow hydrological cycle remarkably like Earth's
By Brendan Brown · Aug 9, 2026
Earth & Environment
Everest is the highest mountain on Earth above sea level, but a volcano in Ecuador called Chimborazo beats it by more than 2,000 metres…
Aug 9, 2026