Longer essays and features from Science Blog. Pieces here go through additional research and review.
The idea that the kindest person in any group is quietly the loneliest has had a good year online.
Aug 2, 2026
Untreated hearing loss is the joint-largest modifiable risk factor for dementia. What treating it actually delivers is a more complicated question.
Aug 2, 2026
One factor predicts success across every mental task ever measured—a discovery so consistent it has survived a century of scientific debate.
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 1, 2026
Research on chosen repetition suggests that rereading can support nostalgia and reflection on personal change, without providing one explanation for every reader.
Jul 31, 2026
On October 24, 1946, a captured V-2 rocket carrying a 35mm movie camera reached 65 miles above the New Mexico desert and returned the first photograph of Earth from space — more than a decade before Sputnik.
Jul 31, 2026
The 2.9 billion figure rests on volunteer roadside counts running since 1966, radar data with wide error bars, and a net calculation that is easy to misread.
Jul 31, 2026
A precision measurement meant to reveal new physics instead reveals deep cracks in our understanding of how particles interact.
Jul 30, 2026
The 2026 excavation season at Gran Dolina recovered at least 24 new fossils, and IPHES-CERCA says at least six of the individuals now identified in the layer were adults, an age group it had barely recorded before.
Jul 29, 2026
The violent injury that shattered what we thought we knew about the human mind itself.
Jul 27, 2026
