Health
Aerobic capacity typically falls about 5–10% per decade after early adulthood, but that decline is far from fixed
By The Long View · Aug 20, 2026
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If Finding Nemo were biologically accurate, Nemo's father would have turned into a female shortly after his mother died, because that is…
By Kiran Journals · Aug 20, 2026
Health
A 30-year study tracking 147,374 people found a striking longevity sweet spot for strength training
By The Long View · Aug 20, 2026
Brain & Behavior
The people who leave you flattened are draining you in three specific, measurable ways, and the science of why holds an uncomfortable…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 20, 2026
Life
The most expensive wool on Earth doesn't come from a farm, but from a wild Andean animal called the vicuña, hunted to a few thousand by the…
By Natural History · Aug 20, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Admiring a great athlete's skill is one thing, but treating them as a hero of general virtue and moral authority is a different move…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 20, 2026
Life
For decades, paleontologists argued that a small tyrannosaur found in Montana’s Hell Creek Formation was merely a young T. rex
By The Long View · Aug 20, 2026
Brain & Behavior
We tend to think the Stanford Prison Experiment proved good people turn cruel under the right conditions, but a 2019 archival investigation…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 20, 2026
Earth & Environment
For roughly 60 million years, rising and falling seas appear to have helped regulate Earth’s climate through an overlooked feedback
By The Long View · Aug 20, 2026
Life
Crocodiles still live wild in the middle of the Sahara desert, trapped there since the desert itself used to be green
By Natural History · Aug 20, 2026
Technology
Norway is preparing to cut a tunnel through a mountain so ships can avoid one of its most dangerous coastal waters
By Daniel Moran · Aug 19, 2026
Earth & Environment
In Venezuela, a lake roughly the size of Connecticut experiences thunderstorms on nearly 300 nights a year, with lightning sometimes…
By The Long View · Aug 19, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Finnish children usually do not begin formal school until the year they turn seven, yet Finland became an education model by producing…
By The Long View · Aug 19, 2026
Earth & Environment
In 2025, scientists drilling beneath the Atlantic off New England pumped up about 50,000 litres of remarkably fresh groundwater
By The Long View · Aug 19, 2026