Social Sciences
For 84 years, textbooks called Gregor Mendel's pea-plant data suspiciously perfect, after a statistician said the numbers were "too good to…
Aug 28, 2026
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Earth & Environment
No country would be truly safe if nuclear war went all the way. But Australia begins with advantages few others can match
Aug 28, 2026
Social Sciences
Steven Spielberg was rejected by USC’s film school because his grades were not good enough
Aug 28, 2026
Brain & Behavior
The Hawthorne effect is named after a pattern in 1920s factory lighting data that nobody checked against the records for eighty years
Aug 28, 2026
Science
The Great Pyramid of Giza weighs roughly eighteen times as much as the Empire State Building
Aug 28, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Integrity does grow in families, but not the way strong family principles suggests
Aug 28, 2026
Social Sciences
Eighteenth-century scholars destroyed hundreds of Herculaneum scrolls trying to prise them open, because the eruption that buried the…
Aug 28, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Every autumn in northern Japan, carrion crows in the city of Sendai drop walnuts onto pedestrian crossings, wait for cars to crush the…
Aug 28, 2026
Social Sciences
South Korea led the world in instant-noodle consumption per person from 2013 through 2020, before Vietnam overtook it in 2021 with an…
Aug 28, 2026
Life
Scientists long considered the brain one of the first organs to disappear after death
Aug 28, 2026
Social Sciences
The wave of nostalgia that hits right after an awkward conversation isn't you dwelling on the past
By Nato Lagidze · Aug 28, 2026
Brain & Behavior
“Don’t get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life”
By Jeanette Brown · Aug 28, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Being smart does not protect you from bias, and can quietly make it worse
Aug 28, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Perfect pitch was long thought to require a rare predisposition and musical training in early childhood
Aug 28, 2026