Brain & Behavior
Dolphins sleep with half a brain at a time
By Mind & Matter · Aug 17, 2026
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Brain & Behavior
Stopping a non-stop talker feels rude because conversation runs on split-second turn-taking that a monologue overrides
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 17, 2026
Life
A jellyfish smaller than a pinky fingernail has spread to every ocean on Earth, almost certainly by hitchhiking inside ship ballast water…
By Brendan Brown · Aug 17, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Something unusual is happening to young people in the English-speaking West
By Mind & Matter · Aug 17, 2026
Life
The Nicobar pigeon, a flighted bird native to Southeast Asia, is the dodo's closest living relative
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 17, 2026
Life
Humans are mediocre sprinters, but in 36–41°C heat researchers watched a hunter pursue an oryx until the animal's body reached 44°C while…
By Natural History · Aug 17, 2026
Brain & Behavior
The traits we use to spot a future leader, confidence, charisma, the person who commands the room, mostly predict who gets picked, not who…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 17, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Something strange happened to American children after 1990
By Mind & Matter · Aug 17, 2026
Space
For decades, scientists believed Titan hid a vast global ocean beneath its frozen crust
By The Long View · Aug 17, 2026
Earth & Environment
Earth's inner core has begun drifting backward relative to the surface after decades of moving slightly faster
By The Long View · Aug 17, 2026
Space
In December 2025, startup Starcloud trained the first large language model ever trained in orbit, using an NVIDIA H100
By Lab Report · Aug 17, 2026
Earth & Environment
The Amazon is often called “the lungs of the Earth,” but a mature rainforest's net oxygen contribution is close to zero
By The Long View · Aug 17, 2026
Life
There is a ligament in the back of your neck that seems to be part of humanity's ancient running equipment
By Natural History · Aug 16, 2026
Space
More than 60 percent of all meteorites ever found on Earth came from Antarctica
By Mind & Matter · Aug 16, 2026