Life
Male Adélie penguins really do offer females a pebble as a mating gift, but the sweeter version of that story leaves out the rest of colony…
By Natural History · Aug 27, 2026
August 2026
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Brain & Behavior
The surprising result from the University of Basel’s new Nature study is not merely that silencing two populations of sleep-drive neurons…
By Mind & Matter · Aug 26, 2026
Life
In July 2025, scientists revealed that the Chinese submersible Fendouzhe had discovered thousands of tubeworms and clams thriving 9,533…
By Natural History · Aug 26, 2026
Life
Crows can memorise the face of a person who wronged them, hold the grudge for as long as 17 years, and teach it to their own chicks and…
By Kiran Journals · Aug 26, 2026
Brain & Behavior
If you retire at 65 and live to 90, you may have around 1,300 ordinary Tuesdays ahead of you
By Jeanette Brown · Aug 26, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Peppercorn-sized clusters of human brain cells survived in laboratory dishes for nearly six years, with some reportedly reaching seven
By Mind & Matter · Aug 26, 2026
Brain & Behavior
In a 2013 experiment, mice spent two hours a day in near-total silence
By Mind & Matter · Aug 26, 2026
Life
Researchers at the University of St Andrews spent decades filming wild New Caledonian crows and documented individuals sculpting forked…
By The Long View · Aug 26, 2026
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Thought of the day from Stoic philosopher Seneca: "hold every hour in your grasp
By Mal James · Aug 26, 2026
Life
A single teaspoon of soil from a healthy forest floor contains more living organisms
By Natural History · Aug 26, 2026
Brain & Behavior
MIT neuroscientists silenced a tiny region of rats’ prefrontal cortex for just seconds, and an ingrained habit stopped controlling their…
By Mind & Matter · Aug 26, 2026
Space
Webb detected methane on 3I/ATLAS after the interstellar comet swept past the Sun in 2025—the first methane ever found on a visitor from…
By Lab Report · Aug 26, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Speaking several languages may be linked to younger patterns of brain connectivity
By Mind & Matter · Aug 26, 2026
Life
In Kobe, a ten-year-old who hand-raised swallowtails trained his caterpillars to hate the smell of lavender, then watched the butterflies…
By Brendan Brown · Aug 26, 2026