Brain & Behavior
The real signs you're an introvert performing extroversion are not how you look in the room but what runs underneath
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 14, 2026
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Earth & Environment
Rain fell across part of the Atacama Desert in 2015 and again in 2017 after roughly five centuries without it, but instead of reviving the…
By Natural History · Aug 14, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Research distinguishes secure self-esteem from fragile high self-esteem that can become defensive when challenged
By Kiran Journals · Aug 14, 2026
Brain & Behavior
The most effective manipulation avoids open aggression, because pressure breeds resistance
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 14, 2026
Brain & Behavior
The list of basic life skills every boomer learned by twelve is real as nostalgia and shaky as evidence of decline
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 14, 2026
Space
The Sun's magnetic field flips every 11 years, a turnover so fast that current models struggle to explain how its magnetic flux dissipates…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 14, 2026
Earth & Environment
In 1956, one watt of solar capacity cost about $1,865 in today's money
By The Long View · Aug 14, 2026
Brain & Behavior
The things not to do when you retire cluster around one mistake, treating it as an ending
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 14, 2026
Earth & Environment
At its peak 6,000 years ago, a lake in the Sahara covered roughly 360,000 square kilometres, more than all five Great Lakes combined, yet…
By Mal James · Aug 14, 2026
Brain & Behavior
The art of letting go is less about acceptance than redirection
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 14, 2026
Space
NASA's Curiosity rover has detected methane on Mars dozens of times since 2012, including a spike of 21 parts per billion in 2019. Europe's…
By The Long View · Aug 14, 2026
Space
Apollo 13's crew timed a fourteen-second engine burn with a wristwatch in April 1970 after the lunar module's main guidance computer had…
By Mal James · Aug 14, 2026
Earth & Environment
In 1996 Norway made the first roughly $300 million deposit into its oil fund, and by mid-2026 the fund was worth about $2.3 trillion
By Mal James · Aug 14, 2026
Health
Japanese women have ranked first in global life expectancy for 41 consecutive years, reaching 87.33 years in 2025. Japanese men live nearly…
By The Long View · Aug 14, 2026