Brain & Behavior
Early retirement is sold as pure freedom, but many find boredom and loneliness instead, and the reason is precise
Aug 23, 2026
2026
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Brain & Behavior
Most claims that your annoying habit is a secret sign of genius are comforting nonsense, but a couple genuinely hold up
Aug 23, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Taken literally the idea romanticizes poverty, which the evidence flatly contradicts, but there is a real truth hiding inside it once you…
Aug 23, 2026
Life
Wild bearded capuchin monkeys in Brazil select heavy stones, sometimes weighing more than a kilogram, carry them to anvils and use them to…
Aug 23, 2026
Brain & Behavior
The reason decent people fail to do the right thing is rarely bad character
Aug 23, 2026
Earth & Environment
One tonne of discarded mobile-phone handsets can contain about 130 kilograms of copper, 3.5 kilograms of silver and 300 to 350 grams of gold
Aug 23, 2026
Earth & Environment
If you compressed Earth's entire atmosphere down to sea-level density, it would form a shell only about eight kilometres thick around a…
Aug 22, 2026
Earth & Environment
Singapore treats trees as more than decoration
By Daniel Moran · Aug 22, 2026
Brain & Behavior
A 2026 analysis of 488,765 people followed for as long as 32 years found that a stronger sense of purpose in life was associated with about…
Aug 22, 2026
Life
A fragment of fossil thigh bone was the only piece carrying this specimen's collection number, and losing it hid where the animal came from…
Aug 22, 2026
Life
South Korean men born in 1996 were estimated to be about 15.2 centimetres taller than men born there in 1896
Aug 22, 2026
Health
Sleep apnea starts with a blocked airway, but some of the damage may travel through the gut
Aug 22, 2026
Technology
James Dyson went through 5,127 prototypes while developing his cyclonic bagless vacuum cleaner
Aug 22, 2026
Health
A natural experiment involving more than 280,000 Welsh adults found that shingles vaccination cut new dementia diagnoses by 20% over seven…
Aug 22, 2026