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Cats and Happiness: What a 93-Nation Study Found
Oct 15
A 93-nation study links national cat density to subjective well-being, but the cat parasite Toxoplasma gondii points the other way - and the authors…
Big Dogs Age Faster, Explained: The Jumping-Gene Clue
Oct 15
A new Science study of nearly 900 dogs points to 'jumping genes' losing their epigenetic control in larger breeds - the first molecular explanation…
Louis Pope Gratacap and the First T. Rex in Fiction
Oct 15
Museum curator Louis Pope Gratacap’s 1915 lost-world novel The New Northland may be the first fiction to feature Tyrannosaurus — months before the AMNH…
Service Reviews vs Official Records: What Stars Miss
Oct 15
Star ratings for nursing homes, childcare and adventure flights often ignore the official enforcement file. Shawn Redd shows why records matter more than reviews.
Giant Fungus “D-Rex”: New Species from Chinese Forests
Oct 14
A giant fungus nicknamed D-rex has been found in Yunnan, China: at 50 centimetres tall it is the largest fruiting body ever recorded in…
Is the Universe Fine-Tuned for Life? A Cup of Water Says Yes
Oct 14
Physicist Kostya Trachenko showed that how runny a liquid can be is set by fundamental constants - adding a second, separate fine-tuning requirement for…
AI Dashboards: Don’t Let Them Drive Corporate Strategy
Oct 14
Real-time AI executive dashboards can trap leaders in micromanagement. Curated latency keeps strategy on the long horizon.
Musah Fuseini: Dagbani Wikipedia and Language Activism
Oct 14
Ghanaian educator Musah Fuseini on teaching Dagbani, building Wikipedia, and open resources that help speakers read and write online.
Vitamin B12: The Vitamin Only Microbes Can Make
Oct 13
Vitamin B12 keeps your nerves and blood healthy, yet only microbes can make it. Here is what it does, who runs low, and why…
El Niño 2026, Explained: Why This One Is Breaking Records
Oct 13
El Niño 2026 has broken daily ocean-temperature records months before its expected peak. Our explainer covers the science, the numbers and what comes next.
Music Training Changes How the Brain Reads Music
Oct 13
A Hong Kong study finds musicians, learners and non-musicians use different brain-side strategies when reading scores — and formal training is the factor that…
Melis Buyruk Porcelain: Myth, Fragility and Power
Oct 13
Turkish sculptor Melis Buyruk on porcelain Habitats, Rumi’s four birds, and why beauty can be a conscious position — not decoration.
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