Brain & Behavior
Loneliness linked to faster cognitive decline in older adults
Older adults who felt lonelier saw their memory and thinking abilities decline faster, over as long as a decade.
Oct 16, 2026
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Chris Jeremia
Chris Jeremia is a writer at Science Blog covering research across the sciences, from animal behavior and ecology to psychology and neuroscience. She holds a degree in communications and teaches yoga alongside her writing. Her pieces work backward from the paper rather than the press release, and she is explicit about sample size, replication, and what a finding does not yet prove.
Earth & Environment
Doubling sea otters halved erosion in California's tidal creeks
Data posted with a 2024 Nature study puts numbers on the change in 13 tidal creeks, though the 69 percent figure in a university press release is harder to pin down.
Oct 13, 2026
Health
Sugar intake during antibiotics linked to steeper gut bacteria loss
Sugar-rich foods and drinks may deepen the loss of gut bacterial diversity that broad-spectrum antibiotics cause, according to a study of stem cell transplant patients at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center published in Nature on 30 September.
Oct 13, 2026
Earth & Environment
Maine lobster traps wash up 3,000 km away in Azores after decades at sea
Every lobster trap set off the coast of Maine must carry a small plastic tag, usually stamped with a license number, a year and a fishing zone.
Oct 10, 2026
Life
Ancient Scottish fossil reveals unexpected early branch point in vertebrate evolution
In the Survival gallery of the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh lies a skeleton less than 20 centimetres long, preserved across the two halves of a split slab of limestone.
Oct 9, 2026
Life
Dogs are supposed to steal forbidden food more often when their owner's eyes are closed, and when researchers ran the test on hunting dogs…
The paper is titled "Striking global similarities in dog–human interactions," and the owners who read their dogs best were hunters in Vanuatu, not Germany.
Aug 4, 2026