A striking pattern emerges across cultures: the smartest children become heavy drinkers in some countries, moderate ones in others, suggesting intelligence alone cannot explain alcohol use.
Clark and Graybiel wrote the pilots' word down, counted how many men knew it, and found that the thing most of them would not discuss was also the thing a few of them said made them feel like kings.
An Italian randomised trial set an open-label placebo against a deceptive one and against a group given no intervention. Two of ten outcomes separated the groups. The physical-performance figures quoted in the university’s announcement are not in the paper, which reports no percentages at all.
A study at Erasmus University Rotterdam measured what people's brains and eyes actually did in front of disturbing pictures, and found the two darker sides of the psychopathic personality behaving in opposite ways. The fearless trait went with attention that seized on the images, at least in the men tested; the cold trait went with a blunted flinch and muted feeling. The volunteers were healthy young adults, not diagnosed psychopaths, and the effects were modest, so the finding is a lead to follow, not a verdict.
When Norway discovered vast oil reserves, it resisted the curse that has impoverished resource-rich nations elsewhere—by building a sovereign wealth fund that became the world's largest, a cautionary tale inverted.
Scientists have tracked a whale's solitary call for decades, but loneliness may be the wrong story—and the ocean's depths may hide truths we're simply not equipped to hear.
When prices double every fifteen hours, a morning's wages become pocket change by dinner—forcing a desperate nation to print the largest banknote ever circulated.
A studio desperate to replace him saw only weakness in Pacino's early takes—until one scene revealed the explosive restraint that would define cinema.
Your face is literally memorizing your expressions, one repetition at a time.
A city-state with nothing but ambition built the world's most unlikely economic miracle.
A country that once hemorrhaged talent to the world is now pulling it back—and has become one of Europe's richest economies in the process.
A nation betting its post-oil future on megaprojects and foreign investment is discovering that transforming an economy faster than global markets demand is harder than the spreadsheets suggest.
What looks like laziness is actually a predator's metabolic masterpiece: cats need most of their day to fuel the milliseconds when they strike.
A bird's survival hinges on the most brutal gamble in nature: starving for months while cradling an egg through Antarctic darkness.
The way a language sounds—literally its humidity and climate conditions—may shape whether speakers rely on pitch to transform meaning.
What once seemed biologically impossible is now within reach—and South Korea's women may be the ones to get there first.
