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.
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
A quixotic 1977 stunt with ancient glacial ice is now attracting serious engineering attention as water scarcity reshapes the global economy.
Aug 10, 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
A simple experiment with paint suggests evolution's answer to one of biology's most enduring mysteries.
Aug 8, 2026
As the Northern Hemisphere sweltered through record heat, a skeleton crew at a remote Antarctic station documented an extreme most of us will never experience—and now they're trapped until spring.
Aug 8, 2026
A generation of unsupervised, under-entertained children may have accidentally stumbled onto the secret to emotional resilience.
Aug 5, 2026
The silent majority of social media aren't checking out—they're the only ones who've truly thought through what they're doing there.
Aug 5, 2026
Over time, outsourcing your to-do list to your phone might be outsourcing your sense of agency along with it.
Aug 4, 2026
