For 84 years, textbooks called Gregor Mendel's pea-plant data suspiciously perfect, after a statistician said the numbers were "too good to…
By The Long View · Aug 28, 2026
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Steven Spielberg was rejected by USC’s film school because his grades were not good enough
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 28, 2026
The Hawthorne effect is named after a pattern in 1920s factory lighting data that nobody checked against the records for eighty years
By The Long View · Aug 28, 2026
Eighteenth-century scholars destroyed hundreds of Herculaneum scrolls trying to prise them open, because the eruption that buried the…
By Lab Report · Aug 28, 2026
South Korea led the world in instant-noodle consumption per person from 2013 through 2020, before Vietnam overtook it in 2021 with an…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 28, 2026
The wave of nostalgia that hits right after an awkward conversation isn't you dwelling on the past
By Nato Lagidze · Aug 28, 2026
In 1990, a third of Americans said they had ten or more close friends. By 2021, that was one in eight
By Nato Lagidze · Aug 28, 2026
The New York Times reported that 38 people watched Kitty Genovese be stabbed to death in 1964 and did nothing
By The Long View · Aug 26, 2026
Researchers surveyed 393 mothers and found nearly nine in ten felt solely responsible for organising the family's schedule, and 65 per cent…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 26, 2026
Australopithecus is not a single branch of the human family tree, a point its own field has long recognised, so why does a new paper argue…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 25, 2026
Sixteen mummified people and a mummified canid accumulated in a single Egyptian side chamber just over five metres long over at least three…
By The Long View · Aug 24, 2026
China's population peaked at about 1.41 billion in 2021 and the UN projects it will fall to about 633 million by 2100
By The Long View · Aug 22, 2026