Life
Western disgust at eating insects may have roots deeper than culture
By Lab Report · Aug 31, 2026
2026
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Brain & Behavior
The psychology of over-apologizing: what genuinely happy people have stopped saying sorry for, and why
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 31, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Does wealth make you better? The research says it depends entirely on what you do with it
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 31, 2026
Life
In 2007, researchers exposed dehydrated tardigrades—eight-legged animals less than a millimetre long—to the vacuum of space for ten days
By Natural History · Aug 31, 2026
Life
Island mammals don’t just slowly drift from their mainland relatives over millions of years
By Natural History · Aug 30, 2026
Technology
Private AI investment in the United States reached $285.9 billion in 2025—23 times China’s $12.4 billion—yet by March 2026, the countries’…
By The Long View · Aug 30, 2026
Technology
University of Tokyo researchers dried, powdered and heat-pressed food scraps including banana peels, orange rinds and cabbage leaves into…
By Lab Report · Aug 30, 2026
Science
On 22 June in a Wrocław terrarium a Komodo egg that had incubated for 202 days hatched a 34-centimetre lizard weighing 115 grams with no…
By Lab Report · Aug 30, 2026
Earth & Environment
Discarded PET bottles and corn stalks went through a 32-step heat-and-oxygen breakdown in Carbondale, then yeasts rebuilt the carbon as…
By Lab Report · Aug 30, 2026
Earth & Environment
On August 4, 2026, a 76-square-kilometre section of Greenland’s Petermann Glacier—roughly the size of Manhattan and up to 150 metres…
By Lab Report · Aug 30, 2026
Technology
Dario Amodei’s thought experiment for 2027
By The Long View · Aug 30, 2026
Earth & Environment
An 86-year-old Pennsylvania farmer rejected roughly $15.7 million
By The Long View · Aug 30, 2026
Life
Scientists once thought zebra stripes might help confuse predators, but when researchers dressed horses in zebra-striped coats, biting…
By Daniel Moran · Aug 30, 2026
Life
Aquarium releases probably seeded the Atlantic lionfish invasion
By Natural History · Aug 30, 2026