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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.
The ocean's deepest waters contain an acoustic superhighway that whales mastered millions of years before humans even knew it existed.
Aug 13, 2026
We chronically underestimate the emotional impact of small gestures because we fixate on what we're giving while others cherish why we're giving it.
Aug 11, 2026
The more equal a society becomes, the unhappier its teenage girls grow—a troubling paradox that challenges everything we thought we knew about progress.
Aug 11, 2026
People routinely underestimate how much strangers will help them, and that misreading cuts deeper into happiness than earning power does.
Aug 11, 2026
Nearly five decades after launch, humanity's most distant messenger still whispers secrets from the edge of the solar system—powered by equipment that should have died decades ago.
Aug 11, 2026
The viral brain science supporting handwriting's memory magic never actually measured what students remember.
Aug 11, 2026
Rereaders aren't stuck in the past—they're experiencing entirely different books, freed from plot suspense to examine the machinery underneath.
Aug 11, 2026
Pets can ease loneliness—unless you're using them to avoid people altogether, in which case isolation deepens.
Aug 10, 2026
A viral claim about weakening young men rests on a study that never actually compared sons to fathers—and a sample too small to prove generational decline.
Aug 10, 2026
Antarctica's polar night posed no barrier to lush forests that thrived in surprisingly mild climates—a glimpse of an alien past that reshapes how scientists understand the planet's capacity for dramatic climatic shifts.
Aug 10, 2026
The power grid wasn't built for artificial intelligence's hunger, and the bottleneck isn't electricity supply—it's the wire and infrastructure to deliver it where new servers want to cluster.
Aug 10, 2026
What you think someone knows matters far more than what they actually know when deciding whether to date them again.
Aug 10, 2026
The forest's "wood wide web" exists—but the viral story about mother trees nurturing their offspring through it is pure speculation.
Aug 10, 2026
The surprising reason older adults grow weaker has less to do with tired muscles than with their body's selective loss of the fastest, most powerful fibers.
Aug 10, 2026
