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.
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
Chronic stress is associated with several measures of biological ageing and may contribute to perceived age, alongside genetics, sun exposure, smoking and other factors.
Aug 6, 2026
What makes a face beautiful varies far more by where you're from than by how symmetrical it is.
Aug 5, 2026
The Maya understood the heavens not through European instruments but through something far more powerful: relentless observation across generations, encoded in stone and ritual.
Aug 5, 2026
The counterintuitive secret to winning arguments: stop arguing and start listening with genuine interest.
Aug 5, 2026
A marketing gimmick from 1960s Japan became global fitness gospel, but new research suggests you can ditch the obsession thousands of steps early.
Aug 3, 2026
What we see as golden is actually nature's optical illusion, a cosmic sleight of hand that has fooled artists and children for centuries.
Aug 3, 2026
The sky's most famous myth obscures a thunderous truth: some places are lightning magnets, struck dozens of times annually.
Aug 3, 2026
A garbage barge rejected by six countries became an unlikely symbol of America's trash crisis, forcing a reckoning with where all that waste was actually going.
Aug 3, 2026
The sleeping brain can solve math problems and communicate answers—all while remaining firmly asleep, revealing an unexpected middle ground between consciousness and dreams.
Aug 3, 2026
A thousand years after the Norman Conquest, English speakers still use one word for the animal in the pasture and another for the meat on the plate—a class division frozen into grammar itself.
Aug 3, 2026
