Brain & Behavior
After a single distraction — a text message, a Slack ping — research suggests it takes roughly 23 minutes on average to fully return to the…
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 6, 2026
2026
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News
Researchers say the muscle attachments on a 4,000-year-old Egyptian princess's bones show the wear of years of archery practice, though…
Aug 6, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Under the Hawaiian kapu system, which governed the islands until 1819, husbands and wives cooked at separate fires and never ate together…
By Daniel Moran · Aug 6, 2026
Brain & Behavior
In a remote society in southwest China, property, surnames, and family leadership all pass through women
By Daniel Moran · Aug 6, 2026
Life
Twin and biological-age studies suggest chronic stress can contribute to how old people look
By Daniel Moran · Aug 6, 2026
Brain & Behavior
A psychologist at the University of Michigan found that people who referred to themselves by name during stressful self-talk
By Jeanette Brown · Aug 6, 2026
Science
In 1890, a German chemist named August Kekulé told a room of admirers he had dreamed of a snake biting its own tail and woken up knowing…
Aug 6, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Much of what we call owning the room turns out to live in the audience
Aug 6, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Walking away without a word is really two different behaviors
Aug 6, 2026
Space
A Canadian astronaut spent three years training for Boeing's Starliner-1, the mission was converted to cargo-only before it ever flew with…
Aug 5, 2026
Brain & Behavior
A 2026 study of 202,898 people across 22 countries found three questions treated as measures of wellbeing told different stories
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 5, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Research suggests the 1960s and 70s produced adults who could self-soothe, entertain themselves, and tolerate boredom
By Brendan Brown · Aug 5, 2026
Brain & Behavior
A study of 730,000 Norwegian conscripts found the IQ gains of the 20th century reversed after 1975, falling by roughly seven points a…
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 5, 2026
Space
When Soviet cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev launched to the Mir station in May 1991 from Baikonur in the Kazakh SSR, he was a citizen of the…
Aug 5, 2026