Brain & Behavior
A Harvard psychologist and his colleague set out to discover how many moving objects the human imagination can track simultaneously
By Mind & Matter · Aug 29, 2026
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Life
Add up every sparrow, crow, eagle, penguin and owl left in the wild, and the world's farmed chickens alone still outweigh them two to three…
By Natural History · Aug 29, 2026
Earth & Environment
In the middle of South Africa's worst drought on record, a 16-year-old boiled orange peels, added avocado skins and left the mix out in the…
By Brendan Brown · Aug 29, 2026
Earth & Environment
A California wind farm paid the Oregon Zoo to raise 12 condor chicks against a federal permit that lets its turbines kill two condors in 30…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 29, 2026
Life
In the entire 485-million-year fossil record of sea lilies, only one fossil had ever been found with the tube feet the animals catch their…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 29, 2026
Life
A 5.02-metre female Greenland shark caught as bycatch in Greenlandic waters was estimated to be 392 years old, with a possible range of 272…
By Natural History · Aug 29, 2026
Earth & Environment
In 1960 Chicago's mayor gave Crown Prince Akihito 18 bluegill from the Shedd Aquarium as a state gift
By Brendan Brown · Aug 29, 2026
Brain & Behavior
The habits blamed for keeping you poor matter less than the genre claims, and often run the other way
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 29, 2026
Brain & Behavior
A 2024 AARP survey of 1,010 adults aged 50-plus found that 44% believed they had grown happier over time—yet only 22% thought most people…
By Mind & Matter · Aug 29, 2026
Earth & Environment
In 2025, Antarctic drillers reached bedrock and pulled up ice that fell as snow 1.2 million years ago
By Lab Report · Aug 29, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Hardship can make you stronger, but only in moderation, and only because of what you build afterward
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 29, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Giving your time and money does lift people, but only when you give it a certain way
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 29, 2026
Life
The rule that you should drink eight glasses of water a day has been repeated for decades, but when a physiologist went looking for its…
By Daniel Moran · Aug 29, 2026
Science
Scientists drilling through Antarctic ice pulled up a core containing air bubbles trapped 800,000 years ago, before modern humans existed…
By Daniel Moran · Aug 29, 2026