Human Behaviour
May 2026
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Science & Engineering
In 2007 the European Space Agency exposed dried tardigrades to the open vacuum of…
Universe
Japan sits on the intersection of four tectonic plates and experiences roughly…
Psychology
People who are truly pleasant and kind but have no close friends often spent…
Science & Engineering
Astronauts on the ISS lose about 1-2% of their bone density per month in…
Science & Engineering
The Antikythera mechanism was recovered from a Roman-era shipwreck in 1901 with at…
Universe
China's Chang'e 5 mission returned lunar rocks dated to 2 billion years old
Science & Engineering
About 60 percent of the human body's mass is water, but a much more interesting…
Science & Engineering
The Mariana Trench, the deepest known point on Earth's surface, sits about 36,000…
Human Factors
Changing your mind publicly can reflect intellectual humility, not intelligence…
Psychology
A major experience-sampling study found that people’s minds wandered during 46.9…
Space & Missions
A European-Chinese spacecraft just launched to photograph something nobody has ever…
Science & Engineering
Sunsets are red for the same reason the sky is blue, and the reason has nothing to…
Science & Engineering
The Carrington Event of 1859 was a solar storm so intense that telegraph operators…
Space & Missions
The Soviet Union landed a probe on Venus in 1970 that survived only 23 minutes…
Constellations