Social Sciences
Researchers who followed 1,004 Dutch retirees found that those who had climbed steeply in their careers were less likely to miss their old…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 30, 2026
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Life
Humans are the only great ape known to have uniformly white sclera, making every shift of the eyes unusually easy to follow
By Natural History · Aug 30, 2026
Earth & Environment
A single cotton T-shirt can have a water footprint of roughly 2,500 litres
By Daniel Moran · Aug 30, 2026
Life
When an Antarctic iceberg the size of Chicago broke off in January 2025, scientists raced to look beneath it and found a thriving ecosystem…
By Natural History · Aug 30, 2026
Technology
A $200 ChatGPT Pro subscription could represent as much as $14,000 a month in equivalent API-priced usage if pushed to its limits…
By Lab Report · Aug 30, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Thought of the day from Greek philosopher Epicurus: "We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness"
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 30, 2026
Life
Scientists analysed 11.8 million locations from 4,581 animals across the United States and found that wildlife responds not only to the…
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 30, 2026
Technology
Humans are still cheaper than AI for most work involving tasks that computer vision could technically automate, MIT researchers found
By Lab Report · Aug 29, 2026
Space
Enceladus looks nothing like a habitable world
By The Long View · Aug 29, 2026
Technology
Many AI reasoning models burn through long chains of intermediate tokens before answering
By Lab Report · Aug 29, 2026
Life
Why 34 of 38 crickets in a dark glass tube walked away from a synthetic copy of one terpene found in a bat's snout secretions, and why the…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 29, 2026
Space
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope launched on August 30 carrying a mirror the same 2.4-metre diameter as Hubble’s
By The Long View · Aug 29, 2026
Brain & Behavior
The ten-thousand-hour study was redone with thirty-nine violinists under double-blind conditions, and the group rated merely good had…
By Mind & Matter · Aug 29, 2026
Health
Moving from UMF 5+ to UMF 20+ Manuka honey cut the concentration needed to shut down 95 percent of MRSA growth in a lab dish from 15…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 29, 2026