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.
A thumb-sized bead suggests California's inland people were trading across vast distances when most of the world still lived by the ice age's rules.
Sep 1, 2026
A secretive mountain dweller thought extinct in the region for seven decades has finally been documented—but scientists still don't know if it's a survivor or a sign of something larger stirring in the Himalayas.
Aug 31, 2026
The ocean floor's violent geology remains largely hidden—until robotic expeditions reveal how molten rock sculpts the seafloor in ways that challenge what we thought we knew about underwater volcanism.
Aug 31, 2026
A simple visual trick—stripes that repel insects—may explain why evolution favored one of nature's most iconic patterns over millions of years.
Aug 30, 2026
Humpback whales routinely abandon their own safety to rescue unrelated species from predators, a pattern so consistent it demands an explanation—but marine biologists have none.
Aug 30, 2026
The world's thirst for cotton is draining aquifers faster than they can refill, threatening communities that can least afford the shortage.
Aug 30, 2026
A physiologist's hunt for the source of the world's most famous health advice reveals it was never based on any evidence—just a misreading of a 1945 report that mentioned water was mostly coming from food anyway.
Aug 29, 2026
What eight hundred millennia of Earth's breath reveals about the climate we're inheriting.
Aug 29, 2026
Correction, 15 September 2026: The excerpt was revised to describe ancient fracture water and its life-supporting chemistry without claiming that researchers found an underground ocean or directly observed ancient living microbes.
Aug 27, 2026
Scientists are finding evidence that elephants may grieve their dead in ways that challenge how we understand animal consciousness and emotion.
Aug 27, 2026
A creature that swims at a walker's pace and may outlive entire human dynasties reveals how extreme slowness becomes a survival strategy in Earth's harshest realm.
Aug 25, 2026
The cardiovascular benefits of dog ownership rival many medical interventions, and may have less to do with walks than with the daily discipline of being needed.
Aug 25, 2026
A cancer vaccine tailored to each patient's unique tumour mutations has achieved what no personalised therapy has before—proving it can delay recurrence in a large clinical trial.
Aug 25, 2026
In one of the world's hottest cities, Singapore's decades-long tree-planting obsession is paying measurable dividends: cooler streets and lower electricity bills.
Aug 22, 2026
