Brain & Behavior
Smart people are often the worst performers under pressure, not the best
Aug 7, 2026
2026
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Health
The 10,000-step target came from the brand name of a 1965 Japanese pedometer, not from research, and studies since suggest the survival…
Aug 7, 2026
Brain & Behavior
The Harvard Study of Adult Development, running for more than 80 years, found that the quality of your relationships at 50 is a better…
Aug 7, 2026
Brain & Behavior
At eighteen, the human brain processes information faster than it ever will again
Aug 7, 2026
Social Sciences
You can sit shoulder to shoulder with hundreds of strangers for eleven hours straight and breathe air that is, by most measures, cleaner…
By Kiran Journals · Aug 7, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Being intelligent and being able to read people are close to separate skills
Aug 7, 2026
Earth & Environment
A moth species has killed off vast swaths of forest across Siberia, leaving so much dead, flammable wood behind that wildfires are now…
Aug 7, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Psychologists have a term for the discomfort of knowing exactly who you used to be and struggling to describe who you are now
By Nato Lagidze · Aug 7, 2026
Life
Only a tiny handful of animals understand that the creature in the mirror is themselves, and one of them weighs six tonnes.
By Kiran Journals · Aug 6, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Walking lowers cortisol, lifting raises testosterone, dancing regulates your nervous system, and stretching can help you feel calmer in the…
By Nato Lagidze · Aug 6, 2026
Brain & Behavior
A study of more than 26,000 people found that night owls outperformed morning risers on memory, reasoning and processing speed—challenging…
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 6, 2026
Space
Nobody on Earth is legally allowed to own the Moon, and yet one man claims to have sold more than 600 million acres of it
By Kiran Journals · Aug 6, 2026
Earth & Environment
Greece put Mount Olympus forward for UNESCO World Heritage status in 2014. Twelve years later, at the mythological home of Zeus and the…
Aug 6, 2026
Space
The hottest planet in the solar system isn't the one closest to the sun
By Daniel Moran · Aug 6, 2026