Brain & Behavior
The famous claim that standing like a superhero floods you with hormones was debunked, even by its own author, but a smaller and sturdier…
Aug 20, 2026
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Brain & Behavior
Researchers tracked 12 people through a ten-month Antarctic isolation experiment expecting loneliness to be the problem
By Brendan Brown · Aug 20, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Raw mental speed peaks in your twenties, but a large new analysis found that overall psychological functioning
By Brendan Brown · Aug 20, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Thought of the day from Stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius
By Mal James · Aug 20, 2026
Health
Aerobic capacity typically falls about 5–10% per decade after early adulthood, but that decline is far from fixed
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
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…
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…
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…
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
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…
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
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
Aug 20, 2026