Social Sciences
The wave of nostalgia that hits right after an awkward conversation isn't you dwelling on the past
By Nato Lagidze · Aug 28, 2026
2026
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Brain & Behavior
“Don’t get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life”
By Jeanette Brown · Aug 28, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Being smart does not protect you from bias, and can quietly make it worse
Aug 28, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Perfect pitch was long thought to require a rare predisposition and musical training in early childhood
Aug 28, 2026
Science
All the gold ever mined in human history
Aug 28, 2026
Space
From roughly 400 kilometres above Earth, ISS astronauts experience about 16 sunrises every day—not because the Sun rises faster, but…
Aug 28, 2026
Social Sciences
In 1990, a third of Americans said they had ten or more close friends. By 2021, that was one in eight
By Nato Lagidze · Aug 28, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Thought of the day from Stoic philosopher Epictetus
Aug 28, 2026
Earth & Environment
Earth’s oceans are probably hotter than at any point in at least 1,000 years and are warming faster than they have for millennia
Aug 28, 2026
Earth & Environment
High Mountain Asia—the “Asian Water Tower” supporting hundreds of millions downstream—lost groundwater at an estimated 24.2 billion tonnes…
Aug 27, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Sheep have a face-recognition system so similar to our own that researchers at the University of Cambridge are using them to study…
Aug 27, 2026
Health
A Phase 3 trial found 87 percent fewer hereditary-angioedema attacks with one gene-editing treatment than with placebo
Aug 27, 2026
Earth & Environment
The oldest water ever found was hiding inside Canadian bedrock
By Daniel Moran · Aug 27, 2026
Uncategorized
Off the southern coast of South Korea, a lava tube called Manjanggul on Jeju Island stretches for more than seven kilometres underground…
By Ainura Kalau · Aug 27, 2026