Space
Webb detected methane on 3I/ATLAS after the interstellar comet swept past the Sun in 2025—the first methane ever found on a visitor from…
By Lab Report · Aug 26, 2026
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Brain & Behavior
Speaking several languages may be linked to younger patterns of brain connectivity
By Mind & Matter · Aug 26, 2026
Life
In Kobe, a ten-year-old who hand-raised swallowtails trained his caterpillars to hate the smell of lavender, then watched the butterflies…
By Brendan Brown · Aug 26, 2026
Health
Doctors have long advised many atrial-fibrillation patients to avoid coffee
By The Long View · Aug 26, 2026
Earth & Environment
Six North American wind farms let their blades sit idle until the wind passed 5 meters per second and bat deaths fell by 62 percent…
By Brendan Brown · Aug 26, 2026
Health
Seven drug regulators, including the EU, UK, and Canada, have warned since 2019 that antidepressant-linked sexual side effects can persist…
By Lab Report · Aug 26, 2026
Brain & Behavior
A survey of roughly 450 cat owners whose household had recently lost another pet found the surviving cats ate less, slept more and searched…
By Brendan Brown · Aug 26, 2026
Brain & Behavior
The runner’s high was attributed to endorphins for decades, but circulating endorphins cannot readily cross the blood–brain barrier—and…
By Mind & Matter · Aug 26, 2026
Space
The Golden Record's aluminium cover carries a smear of uranium-238 with a half-life of 4.468 billion years, put there so that whoever finds…
By The Long View · Aug 26, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Difficulty asking for help can be more than pride
By Mind & Matter · Aug 26, 2026
Social Sciences
The New York Times reported that 38 people watched Kitty Genovese be stabbed to death in 1964 and did nothing
By The Long View · Aug 26, 2026
Health
People who live past 110 may retain an unusual form of immune resilience
By Lab Report · Aug 26, 2026
Earth & Environment
The US Army made sarin and napalm on 17,000 acres outside Denver, and when biologists surveyed the fenced buffer land in 1986 they found a…
By Brendan Brown · Aug 26, 2026
Earth & Environment
Sea level is climbing faster in southern England partly because land in Scotland is rising
By The Long View · Aug 26, 2026