Technology
In 1970, Soviet engineers landed a bathtub-sized rover called Lunokhod 1 on the Sea of Rains, drove it 10.5 kilometres across the lunar…
By The Long View · Aug 8, 2026
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Brain & Behavior
Dog and owner stress hormones rose and fell together across summer and winter, but the famous study came from Sweden, not Vienna
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 8, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Becoming a better person depends less on character than we assume
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 8, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Assumption-reversal: for two centuries anatomists taught that adult human brains could not grow new neurons, until a Swedish neuroscientist…
By Mind & Matter · Aug 8, 2026
Health
In 1955, when a journalist asked Jonas Salk who owned the patent on his newly announced polio vaccine, he answered on live television that…
By The Long View · Aug 8, 2026
Technology
At birth, a human infant has roughly 300 separate bones held together by cartilage that will slowly fuse
By Natural History · Aug 8, 2026
Life
In 2023, conservationists fitted a young bull elephant in Zambia with a GPS collar
By Daniel Moran · Aug 8, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Certain songs can feel more vivid than the events attached to them, but the music is not preserving or replacing the past
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 8, 2026
Brain & Behavior
If you turned out resilient, the research suggests it was probably less a superpower than 'ordinary magic'
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 8, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Coping with what you cannot control is less about accepting defeat than switching tactics
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 8, 2026
Life
Scientists painted black cows with white stripes to test whether zebra markings deter biting flies
By Brendan Brown · Aug 8, 2026
Earth & Environment
While Europe and America baked through record heat this summer, the other end of the planet quietly dropped to minus 119 Fahrenheit
By Brendan Brown · Aug 8, 2026
Brain & Behavior
The deepest respect tends to be quiet: research finds people feel most respected not when they are praised but when they are given a…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 8, 2026
Health
Staying socially connected in later life is one of the better-evidenced predictors of living longer
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 8, 2026