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.
Large observational meta-analyses link loneliness and weaker social connection with higher mortality risk. They do not establish that loneliness directly causes death or that its effect equals smoking.
Aug 12, 2026
A controversial final three seconds in Munich 1972 still divides a team so aggrieved that some players never claimed their silver medals.
Aug 11, 2026
The gap between the life you're living and the life you were meant to live can be so vast, and so invisible, that you might never notice the distance at all.
Aug 11, 2026
A device no bigger than a kitchen appliance just proved humanity could manufacture its own air on another world—a crucial first step toward actually bringing astronauts back home.
Aug 11, 2026
Ancient monuments dwarf even our most vivid sense of deep time—the Great Pyramid was already impossibly old when history's most famous woman ruled Egypt beside it.
Aug 11, 2026
The planet's most perfectly adapted predator emerged half a billion years ago, long before forests existed, and possibly without teeth to show for it.
Aug 10, 2026
Your mind left the page long before your eyes did—and neuroscience now knows exactly why it happens.
Aug 10, 2026
A decade-long puzzle from an accidental discovery in a shrinking Thai pond reveals how patience and cross-border collaboration can overturn assumptions about where Earth's giants once roamed.
Aug 9, 2026
Our deepest fears may be written into us before we can even speak.
Aug 9, 2026
A 15th-century alphabet designed by tracing the human mouth—each letter a visual diagram of how your tongue, teeth, and lips produce that exact sound.
Aug 9, 2026
Ancient elephant highways are colliding with modern borders, revealing how conservation zones fail the animals they're meant to protect.
Aug 8, 2026
A runaway greenhouse effect turned Venus into a hellscape that makes its closer neighbor look frigid by comparison.
Aug 6, 2026
A ritual of separation so rigid that feeding a family required two kitchens, two meals, and the constant threat of death for eating the wrong food.
Aug 6, 2026
While most societies organize around marriage and paternal inheritance, the Mosuo have built a thriving alternative where women hold property, lead households, and men return each night to their mothers.
Aug 6, 2026
