Brain & Behavior
The fear of letting go is partly an accounting error
Aug 9, 2026
2026
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Brain & Behavior
Joy behaves less like luck than like a skill
Aug 9, 2026
Brain & Behavior
If you feel like you are falling apart while everyone else seems fine, the research has a quietly reassuring finding
Aug 9, 2026
Life
Some common swifts leave their nesting sites and do not land again for ten months, remaining airborne throughout migration and their entire…
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 9, 2026
Life
A wolf's howl can carry more than 6 miles in open country
By Mal James · Aug 9, 2026
Brain & Behavior
The Korean alphabet is the only one on Earth with a known inventor and a written explanation for why every letter looks the way it does
By Daniel Moran · Aug 9, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Thought of the day from Stoic philosopher Seneca
By Mal James · Aug 8, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Life can feel faster after 30, but research has found no birthday switch
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 8, 2026
Technology
The boiling river of the Peruvian Amazon runs hot enough to cook small animals that fall in, reaching 86 degrees Celsius along a four-mile…
Aug 8, 2026
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…
Aug 8, 2026
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
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…
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…
Aug 8, 2026