Brendan Brown writes for Science Blog on natural history and the history of science. He founded The Expert Editor, a professional editing practice, in 2012, and spent years editing manuscripts before writing for the publication.
Your brain's raw processing power peaks before you can legally rent a car, but that's not when you'll think most clearly or wisely.
Aug 20, 2026
Scientists have buried the world's most counterintuitive observatory two kilometers under Antarctic ice, where it peers through the entire planet to capture cosmic rays arriving from the opposite hemisphere.
Aug 19, 2026
A microscopic jellyfish that can reverse its own aging has cloned itself across the world's oceans, suggesting a single immortal creature may have been hitching rides in cargo ships for centuries.
Aug 17, 2026
The extinct bird's massive olfactory bulb and nocturnal hunting gaze suggest it was a sophisticated navigator, not the dunce four centuries of human mockery made it out to be.
Aug 16, 2026
The driverless taxi company says its cars are dramatically safer than human drivers, but the comparison obscures a messier reality about where autonomous vehicles actually excel.
Aug 16, 2026
In two Kenyan national parks, a team of biologists spent 14 months following elephants in a vehicle and recording every rumble the animals made.
Aug 15, 2026
What a bee learns about its world stays with it, reshaping how scientists understand individual agency within nature's most famous collective.
Aug 13, 2026
The perfect egg has always been a myth—until scientists proved that myth requires military precision, constant vigilance, and a willingness to treat breakfast like a chemical experiment.
Aug 11, 2026
Two centuries later, scientists finally decoded the physical mystery Beethoven desperately wanted explained, only to discover the real cause of his suffering remained hidden.
Aug 11, 2026
A celebrated conservation triumph gets complicated: new research suggests the wolf reintroduction's ecological cascade was far messier than the viral narrative suggests.
Aug 11, 2026
Northern China was under Japanese occupation in 1933, and the man building the bridge over the Songhua River knew exactly what would happen if he handed the skull to the authorities.
Aug 10, 2026
A moon where rain falls, rivers flow, and lakes sprawl—but where frozen water-ice serves as bedrock and methane plays the role of water.
Aug 9, 2026
For the first time, scientists have fossil evidence of exactly how a T. rex killed its prey—a tooth snapped mid-bite and still embedded in bone after 66 million years.
Aug 9, 2026
The human spine is surprisingly elastic—stretch it far enough, and it might not snap back.
Aug 9, 2026
