Brain & Behavior
Palmer Luckey's oxytocin marriage fix lacks any evidence it works
Palmer Luckey was asked on a podcast what he’d work on if he was starting from zero today, and his answer was divorce.
Oct 10, 2026
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Justin Brown
Justin Brown writes for Science Blog on science and institutions, how discoveries become public stories, and the human consequences of scientific systems. He holds a Master of Science in Economic History from the London School of Economics.
Health
Melbourne's deadly thunderstorm asthma hit mostly people without diagnosed asthma
A gust front crossed Melbourne at 6pm on 21 November 2016. Over the next 30 hours, public hospitals in Melbourne and Geelong recorded 476 more asthma related admissions than normal, a 992% increase on the three year average.
Oct 9, 2026
Health
How a Massachusetts town study rewrote the rules on blood pressure
"No practitioner of medicine should be without a sphygmomanometer."
Oct 9, 2026
Earth & Environment
Virginia's eelgrass meadows have nearly doubled since restoration began
The eelgrass meadow that scientists brought back to the shallow bays behind Virginia's barrier islands now covers 4,792.08 hectares, about 11,800 acres, and it is still spreading on its own.
Oct 8, 2026
Health
Staying active heals back pain faster than bed rest, study finds
People with a recent bout of low back pain who were told to keep up their ordinary activities as far as the pain allowed recovered faster than people told to spend two days in bed.
Oct 8, 2026
Earth & Environment
Across 20 corn farms in South Dakota, Nebraska, North Dakota and Minnesota, the regenerative fields yielded 29 percent less grain, and the…
In 2018 two researchers compared corn farms in the northern United States and found that the ones farming regeneratively grew 29 percent less grain than the conventional farms, and made more money anyway.
Oct 7, 2026
Technology
12-year-old builds working Braille printer from $350 Lego kit
When a middle schooler cracked an accessibility problem that the technology industry had left unsolved for decades, major investors took notice.
Sep 22, 2026
Health
Bajau divers' spleens grow 50 percent larger from a lifetime underwater
A genetic adaptation allows one Indonesian community to thrive where others would drown, rewriting what we thought possible about human evolution in a single generation.
Sep 22, 2026
Earth & Environment
Engineers use a simple pipe to prevent a deadly gas eruption from a Cameroon lake
Engineers use a simple pipe to prevent a lake from releasing the invisible killer that suffocated an entire region in 1986.
Sep 22, 2026
Earth & Environment
Oceanographer tracked 28,800 lost bath toys across two decades of ocean drift
Twenty-eight thousand eight hundred plastic bath toys — yellow ducks, red beavers, blue turtles and green frogs, made in China and sold by The First Years as…
Sep 22, 2026
Life
Ancient chewed birch tar reveals complete genome of Stone Age woman
A speck of ancient chewed tar has yielded the complete genetic blueprint of a Stone Age woman, revealing not just her DNA but her appearance, diet, and the intimate details of her last meal.
Sep 22, 2026