Daniel Moran is a writer at Science Blog covering the intersection of psychology, technology, and human behavior. Daniel brings a background in technology research and a focus on how scientific findings translate into the way people actually live, work, and think.
The fossil record is forcing scientists to rewrite when and where human ancestry split into separate branches, upending decades of assumptions about our evolutionary path.
Sep 8, 2026
Sixteen hours of nonstop singing would wreck a human throat, a human diaphragm and probably a human marriage.
Sep 8, 2026
An African megafauna mistake now threatens entire ecosystems across South America, decades after a drug lord's exotic pets escaped into the wild.
Sep 7, 2026
A handheld garden tool is quietly one of America's worst air polluters, and nobody's talking about it.
Sep 6, 2026
Picture a poodle that spent its childhood on all fours, then hit adolescence and decided the front legs were optional.
Sep 6, 2026
One cave, one underwater glimpse, and a trove of Ice Age giants that rewrites what we know about Texas's deep past.
Sep 6, 2026
As sea levels rise and saltwater intrudes on freshwater forests, millions of dead trees are reshaping America's coastline—and revealing how quickly climate change can transform an entire ecosystem.
Sep 6, 2026
Accumulating shellfish refuse transformed a Fijian shoreline into solid ground, revealing how ordinary people across the Pacific engineered their landscape one meal at a time.
Sep 6, 2026
Reeds do not grow on salt flats. Yet dozens of near-perfect circles of them have shoved their way up through the crust of Farmington Bay, in the south-eastern corner of Utah's Great Salt Lake.
Sep 6, 2026
A Thai farming community discovered that elephants will raid crops they love but ignore ones they find bland—a simple crop swap that transforms conflict into coexistence.
Sep 4, 2026
A microscopic time capsule from an ancient ocean reveals an entire ecosystem frozen in stone—and scientists didn't even know to look for it.
Sep 4, 2026
How a Kansas fry cook and a simple five-cent burger conquered American anxiety about ground meat.
Sep 3, 2026
Two months flat on their backs revealed the shocking speed at which the human body surrenders to gravity's absence—and what that means for astronauts, the elderly, and anyone immobilized by illness.
Sep 3, 2026
A few miles inside the French border, at a motorway toll plaza called Le Boulou, a crowd of French winegrowers cracked open five tanker trucks and let tens of thousands of litres of red wine run out across the tarmac.
Sep 3, 2026
