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In 1968, a researcher built a mouse paradise
By Daniel Moran · Aug 19, 2026
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Life
Chimpanzees in West Africa have been seen carrying their dead for weeks, grooming the body, chasing away flies, and sitting close to the…
By Daniel Moran · Aug 19, 2026
Brain & Behavior
A 2025 study found that a partner’s willingness to protect you mattered far more to attraction than their physical strength
Aug 18, 2026
Popular
Your fingers do not wrinkle in the bath simply because the skin soaks up water
Aug 18, 2026
Earth & Environment
The rainforest is not the lungs of the Earth
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 18, 2026
Health
In a cave in southern Italy in 1963, archaeologists found two skeletons buried in an embrace 12,000 years earlier, one of them long assumed…
Aug 18, 2026
Brain & Behavior
A year is 20% of a five-year-old's life but only 2% of a 50-year-old's
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 18, 2026
Brain & Behavior
For some older adults, caring for an animal may do more than add walks and routine
By Daniel Moran · Aug 18, 2026
Biology
Researchers found that people who spoke two or more languages developed dementia symptoms about 4.5 years later than those who spoke only…
By Daniel Moran · Aug 18, 2026
Life
In a Duke University experiment, spotted hyenas were given a rope-pulling task requiring two animals to coordinate without prior training
Aug 18, 2026
Brain & Behavior
A 2015 study found that verbal intelligence uniquely predicted both worry and rumination
Aug 18, 2026
Life
A male lion spends much of his life resting and may even displace lionesses from kills they caught
Aug 18, 2026
Popular
A sheet of paper is about a tenth of a millimetre thick, but doubling it only twenty-seven times builds a stack taller than Mount Everest
Aug 18, 2026
Health
A Mayo Clinic AI re-analysed CT scans that had originally been read as normal
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 18, 2026