Earth & Environment
Suzanne Simard's 1997 experiment really did find carbon moving between tree species through shared fungal threads, but the much more famous…
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 10, 2026
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Brain & Behavior
The research on overthinking points to one specific shift that helps more than telling yourself to stop
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 10, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Cognitive scientists have a precise name for the strange blankness of finishing a page and realizing you retained none of it
By Daniel Moran · Aug 10, 2026
Space
The surface of Venus is more than 200°C hotter than a home oven
By Mal James · Aug 10, 2026
Earth & Environment
In 1977, a Saudi prince paid to tow a chunk of Alaskan iceberg to a conference in landlocked Iowa, serving guests 4,000-year-old ice in…
By Brendan Brown · Aug 10, 2026
Health
Roger Fielding's lab at Tufts followed the same older adults for ten years and found their individual muscle fibers still generated just as…
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 10, 2026
Life
In 1933, a laborer building a bridge in northern China dug up a huge fossilized human skull and hid it in a well, telling no one for 85…
By Brendan Brown · Aug 10, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Whitehall II tracked 3,433 British civil servants for up to 14 years on either side of retirement and found verbal memory declined 38…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 10, 2026
Technology
Future cars may double as grid batteries, but only 22 current models can send power back
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 10, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Psychology has actually mapped what makes a person difficult and defiant, a cluster of antagonistic traits and a reflex to resist any rule…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 10, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Avoiding a scene is easier once you know why scenes happen
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 10, 2026
Brain & Behavior
True intelligence is not simply faster thinking
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 10, 2026
Earth & Environment
Solar added a record 600 terawatt-hours of electricity in 2025 and supplied more than 8 percent of the global total, but the next…
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 10, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Rather than a list of forbidden phrases, the research points to two things parents are wiser not to say as a habit
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 10, 2026