Health
A 2016 study found men aged 20 to 34 had weaker grips than the same-age norms recorded in 1985, but it did not test their fathers and one…
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 10, 2026
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Earth & Environment
About 90 million years ago, a temperate rainforest grew just 900 kilometres from the South Pole
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 10, 2026
Technology
When the Apollo 11 guidance software developed under Margaret Hamilton's leadership began flashing a sequence of 1201 and 1202 alarms more…
Aug 10, 2026
Technology
Data centers used 1.5 percent of global electricity in 2024, but AI is driving demand into concentrated clusters where the IEA says one in…
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 10, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Two independent speed-dating studies, one with 763 participants and one with 175, found that measured intelligence did not predict how…
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 10, 2026
Space
Much of the gold on Earth, in wedding rings and dental fillings and central bank reserve bars, was likely forged when neutron stars…
Aug 10, 2026
Biology
Sharks have existed for roughly 450 million years, and for the first 60 million of them, there wasn't a single tree anywhere on the planet
By Daniel Moran · Aug 10, 2026
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
Brain & Behavior
The research on overthinking points to one specific shift that helps more than telling yourself to stop
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