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
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Brain & Behavior
A 2025 study co-authored at the University of Toronto found that effortfully trying to maximize happiness can consume the same mental…
Aug 29, 2026
Social Sciences
Retirees in their fifties are much more likely than those in their sixties to consider returning to work, and surveys suggest the…
Aug 29, 2026
Space
In July 2025, a telescope in Chile spotted a tiny moving dot inside Jupiter’s orbit
Aug 28, 2026
Social Sciences
For 84 years, textbooks called Gregor Mendel's pea-plant data suspiciously perfect, after a statistician said the numbers were "too good to…
Aug 28, 2026
Earth & Environment
No country would be truly safe if nuclear war went all the way. But Australia begins with advantages few others can match
Aug 28, 2026
Social Sciences
Steven Spielberg was rejected by USC’s film school because his grades were not good enough
Aug 28, 2026
Brain & Behavior
The Hawthorne effect is named after a pattern in 1920s factory lighting data that nobody checked against the records for eighty years
Aug 28, 2026
Science
The Great Pyramid of Giza weighs roughly eighteen times as much as the Empire State Building
Aug 28, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Integrity does grow in families, but not the way strong family principles suggests
Aug 28, 2026
Social Sciences
Eighteenth-century scholars destroyed hundreds of Herculaneum scrolls trying to prise them open, because the eruption that buried the…
Aug 28, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Every autumn in northern Japan, carrion crows in the city of Sendai drop walnuts onto pedestrian crossings, wait for cars to crush the…
Aug 28, 2026
Social Sciences
South Korea led the world in instant-noodle consumption per person from 2013 through 2020, before Vietnam overtook it in 2021 with an…
Aug 28, 2026
Life
Scientists long considered the brain one of the first organs to disappear after death
Aug 28, 2026