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
2026
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Earth & Environment
In Venezuela, a lake roughly the size of Connecticut experiences thunderstorms on nearly 300 nights a year, with lightning sometimes…
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…
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
Aug 19, 2026
Psychology
Cultures that still protect an afternoon rest period aren't fighting biology, they're working with it
By Nato Lagidze · Aug 19, 2026
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
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…
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…
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…
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…
Aug 19, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Psychologists have long known that empathy without enough support can turn into emotional exhaustion
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
Aug 19, 2026