Earth & Environment
A moth species has killed off vast swaths of forest across Siberia, leaving so much dead, flammable wood behind that wildfires are now…
Aug 7, 2026
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Brain & Behavior
Psychologists have a term for the discomfort of knowing exactly who you used to be and struggling to describe who you are now
By Nato Lagidze · Aug 7, 2026
Life
Only a tiny handful of animals understand that the creature in the mirror is themselves, and one of them weighs six tonnes.
By Kiran Journals · Aug 6, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Walking lowers cortisol, lifting raises testosterone, dancing regulates your nervous system, and stretching can help you feel calmer in the…
By Nato Lagidze · Aug 6, 2026
Brain & Behavior
A study of more than 26,000 people found that night owls outperformed morning risers on memory, reasoning and processing speed—challenging…
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 6, 2026
Space
Nobody on Earth is legally allowed to own the Moon, and yet one man claims to have sold more than 600 million acres of it
By Kiran Journals · Aug 6, 2026
Earth & Environment
Greece put Mount Olympus forward for UNESCO World Heritage status in 2014. Twelve years later, at the mythological home of Zeus and the…
Aug 6, 2026
Space
The hottest planet in the solar system isn't the one closest to the sun
By Daniel Moran · Aug 6, 2026
Brain & Behavior
After a single distraction — a text message, a Slack ping — research suggests it takes roughly 23 minutes on average to fully return to the…
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 6, 2026
News
Researchers say the muscle attachments on a 4,000-year-old Egyptian princess's bones show the wear of years of archery practice, though…
Aug 6, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Under the Hawaiian kapu system, which governed the islands until 1819, husbands and wives cooked at separate fires and never ate together…
By Daniel Moran · Aug 6, 2026
Brain & Behavior
In a remote society in southwest China, property, surnames, and family leadership all pass through women
By Daniel Moran · Aug 6, 2026
Life
Twin and biological-age studies suggest chronic stress can contribute to how old people look
By Daniel Moran · Aug 6, 2026
Brain & Behavior
A psychologist at the University of Michigan found that people who referred to themselves by name during stressful self-talk
By Jeanette Brown · Aug 6, 2026