Brain & Behavior
Thought of the day from Stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius
Aug 27, 2026
August 2026
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Life
In 1962, French geologist Michel Siffre climbed into a glacier cave in the Alps with no clock and no sunlight and stayed for two months…
Aug 27, 2026
Brain & Behavior
There is usually more than one way to look at any situation, and the psychology of naive realism explains why your first reading feels like…
Aug 27, 2026
Earth & Environment
The cookiecutter shark is barely the length of a human forearm, but it hunts animals many times its size by latching onto them with…
Aug 27, 2026
Life
In 1859 Thomas Austin turned 24 rabbits loose on his estate near Geelong so he could hunt on the weekend
Aug 27, 2026
Technology
South Korea builds some of the fastest internet and most advanced cities on Earth, and yet Google Maps still can't give turn-by-turn…
By Ainura Kalau · Aug 27, 2026
Earth & Environment
For years, divers off the coast of Japan kept finding mysterious, perfectly symmetrical circles carved into the seafloor sand, and nobody…
Aug 27, 2026
Space
Real vacuum-exposure records contradict almost everything Hollywood has taught about it
By Ainura Kalau · Aug 27, 2026
Earth & Environment
Rural electricity access in Malawi was about 2% in 2002, and a 14-year-old sent home from school over $80 in fees built a 5-metre tower…
By Brendan Brown · Aug 27, 2026
Life
Snakes have no eyelids at all, so they cannot blink even if they wanted to
Aug 27, 2026
Health
After eight weeks of combined aerobic and strength training, sedentary women with the most accelerated epigenetic aging reduced that…
Aug 27, 2026
Life
Koalas have fingertip ridges, loops and whorls so similar to ours that University of Adelaide anthropologist Maciej Henneberg warned police…
Aug 27, 2026
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In 1978, two climbers reached the summit of Everest without bottled oxygen, proving the body could survive there
By Ainura Kalau · Aug 27, 2026
Technology
In 2023, an estimated one in five English-language biomedical papers carried linguistic traces of AI-assisted writing
Aug 27, 2026