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Lachlan Brown is Editor-in-Chief of Science Blog and co-founder of Brown Brothers Media. He writes about psychology, human behavior, and the unexpected ways scientific findings reshape how we understand everyday life.
Tracking data from 4,581 US animals show that human presence and built landscapes are distinct, interacting influences on wildlife space use.
Aug 30, 2026
A koala-specific mutation clock moves the start of a shared ancestral decline to about 100,000 years ago, although the genomic models differ on whether the fall was sharp or gradual.
Aug 23, 2026
A 621-species evolutionary analysis finds that arthropods repeatedly gained and lost five forms of sperm grouping, while the function of those cellular teams remains unsettled.
Aug 21, 2026
A certified 35.5% perovskite-silicon tandem result shows why stacking absorbers can beat silicon's single-junction limit, while leaving durability and scale as the harder commercial tests.
Aug 21, 2026
Mice expressing naked mole-rat Has2 lived modestly longer and had less cancer in old age, but this animal study does not establish a human longevity treatment.
Aug 20, 2026
Four tooth pits in a terror bird's leg point to a 4.6-to-4.8-meter caiman, probably Purussaurus neivensis, but the fossil cannot distinguish a kill from scavenging.
Aug 20, 2026
The 20%-versus-2% calculation makes subjective time compression easy to picture. Brain imaging and survey research suggest the full explanation also involves memory, attention, routine and the scale of the question.
Aug 18, 2026
Mayo Clinic's REDMOD model found subtle CT signatures of later pancreatic cancer in a retrospective validation study, but the tool still needs prospective testing before clinical use.
Aug 18, 2026
The million-degree corona is hundreds of times hotter than the visible surface. Waves and reconnection explain parts of the energy transfer, but not yet all of it.
Aug 15, 2026
Webb measured heavy-water and carbon-isotope ratios in interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS that point to formation roughly 11 to 12 billion years ago.
Aug 15, 2026
One Heckman co-authored model put IQ's wage prediction near 1%, but other datasets and a later reanalysis show why that figure is not a universal constant.
Aug 15, 2026
A natural experiment around an NIH funding cutoff found higher-impact work among near-miss scientists who stayed active, alongside substantial attrition from the system.
Aug 15, 2026
Infant hippocampal activity predicted picture recognition about a minute later, narrowing encoding-failure accounts of infantile amnesia without proving that early memories survive into adulthood.
Aug 15, 2026
Voyager 1 transmits at roughly 22 watts, but recovering that signal after more than one light-day depends on precision pointing, known coding and NASA's largest radio antennas.
Aug 15, 2026
