Science

World Space Week, Gaganyaan-1's countdown: Mangalyaan reached Mars for $74M, Chandrayaan-3 landed for ₹615 crore. What the numbers teach, and what they hide.

October 9, 2026 · 8 min read

Waking at 3 a.m. with a racing mind? Cortisol's early-morning rise and lighter second-half sleep explain most of it — the liver-glycogen story is only a

September 16, 2026 · 6 min read

Ayurveda's vamkukshi advises resting on the left side after meals. Modern reflux studies back the left-side habit, but the heart and lymph claims don't hold up.

September 15, 2026 · 4 min read

Brain organoids, a six-million-person genetics map, LSD-derived MM120 for anxiety, and an SGK1 trauma pathway: what neuroscience actually found about mental

March 19, 2026 · 4 min read

Why simulation theory went from Bostrom's 2003 paper and Musk's 'one in billions' to a hypothesis physicists take seriously — and why it may be unfalsifiable.

March 19, 2026 · 3 min read

A study of 40,000 Germans found that over-optimistic forecasts of future happiness predicted a 10% higher risk of death within a decade.

February 28, 2013 · 2 min read

A PNAS study by Oskar Burger and colleagues found that most of humanity's longevity gains happened in just the last century — 72 really is the new 30.

February 25, 2013 · 2 min read

A 2013 study found sex differences in the brain protein Foxp2 — but the real story was subtler, and nearly the opposite of the 'women talk more' headlines.

February 20, 2013 · 2 min read

On October 14, 2012, Felix Baumgartner fell 24 miles from the edge of space at Mach 1.25 — the first human to break the sound barrier in freefall.

October 15, 2012 · 1 min read

Fabiola Mann, 15, of Harrow-on-the-Hill scored 162 on the 2012 Mensa IQ test — two points above Einstein and Hawking — and hoped to study medicine at Cambridge.

October 14, 2012 · 1 min read

New Zealand scientists used RNA interference to create a GM cow whose milk has almost no beta-lactoglobulin — the protein behind many childhood milk allergies.

October 2, 2012 · 2 min read

A Dutch brain-imaging study found that seeing a celebrity endorse shoes lights up the medial orbitofrontal cortex — the persuasiveness of fame itself, not

July 13, 2012 · 1 min read

On July 4, 2012, CERN announced the discovery of a particle consistent with the Higgs boson — the missing piece of the Standard Model, theorized in 1964.

July 4, 2012 · 1 min read

Brain scans show novels light up more than the language centers — fiction trains empathy, simulates experience, and rewires how we understand others.

April 26, 2012 · 1 min read

Researchers began building riot-prediction models from social media and economic data in 2012 — and civil-liberties advocates immediately raised alarms.

April 22, 2012 · 2 min read

In a 2012 Science study, six Guinea baboons learned to distinguish correctly spelled four-letter words from nonwords — no speech required.

April 17, 2012 · 3 min read

Rensselaer researchers found that once 10% of a population holds an unshakable belief, the majority follows. The finding came from network science, not

July 31, 2011 · 2 min read

NASA announced bacteria that may substitute arsenic for phosphorus — even in DNA. On the extraordinary claim, the instant skepticism, and what came after.

December 3, 2010 · 1 min read