Brain & Behavior
Research suggests people who handwrite lists and people who use phone apps process their entire day differently
By Brendan Brown · Aug 4, 2026
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Brain & Behavior
The internet treats returning your shopping cart as the ultimate test of character, but the psychology of small unwatched good deeds says…
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 4, 2026
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Pan-Psychicism? Are paranormal powers universal?
By Josh Mitteldorf · Aug 4, 2026
Brain & Behavior
A 2005 study found that people given fewer design materials to work with produced more original solutions than people given a wider…
Aug 4, 2026
Brain & Behavior
A 2010 study found that imagining a plan has already failed, in the past tense, reduced participants' overconfidence by roughly 25 points…
Aug 4, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Eat the fartons, skip the small talk: the same rule that keeps you from wasting a dessert can keep you from wasting a friendship
By Nato Lagidze · Aug 4, 2026
Life
The famous goal of 10,000 steps a day was never based on science
By Daniel Moran · Aug 3, 2026
Brain & Behavior
The quality we call class lines up with something researchers have a name for
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 3, 2026
Space
The sun is actually white, not yellow — its visible wavelengths reach Earth as white light, but our atmosphere scatters the shorter blue…
By Daniel Moran · Aug 3, 2026
Animals
Brazilian study identifies four Flavobacterium species in 11 aquaculture isolates
Aug 3, 2026
Science
"Lightning never strikes the same place twice" is a comforting saying and a completely false one
By Daniel Moran · Aug 3, 2026
Earth & Environment
In 1987, a barge loaded with three thousand tons of New York garbage set out for a landfill and couldn't find anywhere to dump it
By Daniel Moran · Aug 3, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Scientists found that during a lucid dream, the sleeping brain's prefrontal cortex
By Daniel Moran · Aug 3, 2026
Brain & Behavior
The English words "cow," "pig," and "sheep" come from Anglo-Saxon
By Daniel Moran · Aug 3, 2026