Psychology
Cultures that still protect an afternoon rest period aren't fighting biology, they're working with it
By Nato Lagidze · Aug 19, 2026
2026
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Brain
Studies of rural Korean centenarians suggest that many of the longest-lived women did not retire from daily life so much as remain woven…
By Daniel Moran · Aug 19, 2026
Brain & Behavior
The Korean concept of 'nunchi' teaches people to read a room before they speak, but for many women it carries a cost that social grace…
By Daniel Moran · Aug 19, 2026
Life
Bulls aren't enraged by red — they're red-green colour blind, and it's the movement of the cape that triggers the charge
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 19, 2026
Brain & Behavior
A December 2025 study of more than 30,000 older adults found that social isolation accelerated cognitive decline whether people felt lonely…
By Mind & Matter · Aug 19, 2026
Earth & Environment
The Great Simplification predicts globalization receding into local production, and world trade did fall from 62.1 percent of global output…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 19, 2026
Science
In 1991, two hikers in the Ötztal Alps found a body sticking out of the melting ice and assumed it was a recent climber, but the corpse…
By The Long View · Aug 19, 2026
Brain & Behavior
For decades, biologists assumed the brain's immune system replenished itself from birth, sealed off from the rest of the body by the…
By Mind & Matter · Aug 19, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Psychologists have long known that empathy without enough support can turn into emotional exhaustion
By Mind & Matter · Aug 19, 2026
Space
The computer that guided Apollo 11 to the Moon had only about 4 kilobytes of working memory and a processor running at roughly 1 MHz
By Lab Report · Aug 19, 2026
Life
In the spring of 2022, a Cornell lab technician who'd been parking for free near an Ithaca cemetery and cutting through it on her walk to…
By Natural History · Aug 19, 2026
Space
Titan is the only world beyond Earth where you could step outside without a pressure suit
By The Long View · Aug 19, 2026
Physics
Two and a half kilometres beneath the Antarctic ice, a cubic kilometre of frozen water has been wired with 5,160 light sensors, turning the…
By Brendan Brown · Aug 19, 2026
Technology
Singapore ranked first in Counterpoint Research’s 2025 Global AI Cities Index, ahead of Seoul, Beijing and San Francisco
By The Long View · Aug 19, 2026