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Lachlan Brown

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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.

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Brain & Behavior

If you still read physical books instead of a Kindle, science says you have these 7 distinct traits

Your attachment to paper over pixels reveals something deeper than nostalgia—it suggests a psychological profile that values friction, memory, and presence in an accelerating world.

Jul 23, 2026

Brain & Behavior

Seven capacities pet-directed speech may express, without proving a personality profile

Pet-directed speech is a real communication style. It may draw on attention, adaptation and care, but research does not establish a seven-trait profile for people who use it.

Jul 23, 2026

Brain & Behavior

Science says if you enjoy these 7 hobbies, you likely have an above-average IQ

The hobbies that correlate with higher intelligence reveal less about IQ tests than about how curious minds choose to spend time.

Jul 22, 2026

Brain & Behavior

Adults who eat the same breakfast every morning, take the same route to work and order the same drink at every restaurant aren’t boring

Repetition isn't necessarily rigidity—it might be how we free mental energy for what actually matters.

Jul 22, 2026

Brain & Behavior

If you still write your grocery list on paper instead of on your phone, science says you have these 7 distinct traits

The real science behind shopping lists is far messier—and more interesting—than personality quizzes suggest.

Jul 22, 2026

Brain & Behavior

NASA’s astronaut selection process goes far beyond résumés, intelligence and physical fitness

The astronauts who survive NASA's gauntlet aren't necessarily the smartest—they're the ones who stay sharp when everything falls apart.

Jul 21, 2026

Earth & Environment

In 2017, Australia officially shifted its national coordinates 1.8 meters northeast

The ground beneath your feet is slowly drifting, and the maps that locate it have to keep pace.

Jul 21, 2026

Earth & Environment

A University of California, Riverside study published in Nature Communications found that a weakening Atlantic Ocean current thousands of…

Thousands of miles away, a faltering Atlantic current could turn California's storms into catastrophic deluges, trapping the state in an even more brutal cycle of flooding and drought.

Jul 20, 2026

Brain & Behavior

Psychology says people who feel emotionally lighter within minutes of arriving at the ocean aren’t imagining it

The sight of water triggers measurable calm in your body within seconds—a physiological response that helps explain why coastal visits feel so restorative.

Jul 20, 2026

Earth & Environment

Earth's inner core is not pure iron — a 2025 Oxford study found it could only have begun to freeze if roughly 3.8 percent of it is carbon…

The planet's magnetic shield may owe its existence to carbon, the element that animates all life on Earth.

Jul 20, 2026

Earth & Environment

The world's tallest waterfall is not Angel Falls

The planet's most dramatic waterfall exists in total darkness, where colliding ocean temperatures create a cascade far taller than anything water has ever done on land.

Jul 20, 2026

Space

Energy created in the Sun’s core can spend around 170,000 years bouncing through the radiative zone before reaching the outer layers

The light warming your face this morning left the Sun's core when mammoths still roamed the Earth.

Jul 20, 2026

Earth & Environment

In 1970, Soviet scientists began drilling into the Kola Peninsula and eventually reached 12,262 metres

Fifty years ago, Soviet scientists drilled deeper into Earth than anyone before or since—only to discover they'd barely begun.

Jul 19, 2026

Science

Australia's Finke River, known as the Larapinta, is estimated to be between 300 and 400 million years old

A river older than dinosaurs may sound mythical, but Australia's Finke has the geology to back it up—and a humbling reminder of how little we truly understand about deep time.

Jul 19, 2026