The Reason You Trust A Confident Person More Than A Competent One. Even When You Know Better.

econopass.com · Marco Bellinari In group decision-making studies, the most confident voices consistently gained the most influence, regardless of whether they were right. The confidence heuristic is not a character flaw. It is a cognitive system built for a world that no longer exists in quite the same form. The question is whether you can notice it in time to do anything about it.

econopass.com

Asymmetric space waves map pressure on Earth's magnetic shield

The Earth’s magnetic field is responsible for shielding us from harmful space weather, including solar radiation from the Sun but also cosmic rays originating from outside our solar system. Cosmic rays can include deep space supernovas, so the magnetic field takes the majority of the brunt from solar radiation. Without our magnetic field, the solar wind would slowly strip away our atmosphere, making life on our small, blue world impossible to exist. But where is the magnetic field doing the heaviest lifting regarding how it filters out incoming space radiation?

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Meet the Real-Life Scottish Surgeon Who Inspired Sherlock Holmes

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Why Does the Right Side of the Brain Control the Left Side of the Body? A Neuroscientist Explains

phys.org

The best portable chargers

If your smartphone or earbuds don't make it through the day, the best portable chargers can top off key batteries when the time comes.

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A Fire Ravaged the 'Eagle's Nest,' an Alpine Retreat Built for Top Nazis. What Happens Next?

Police have detained a 33-year-old German citizen in connection with the blaze, which gutted the infamous historic building. In recent years, the mountaintop guesthouse hosted a restaurant, beer garden and exhibit about the site's dark past

smithsonianmag.com

A Massive Study Reveals How Your DNA Is Linked to Your Personality, Health and Even Where You Live

An enormous DNA study links personality to health, habits and even where people settle.

zmescience.com

Analog astronauts: How living underwater can prepare humans for space missions

The risks and advantages of performing research missions underwater to prepare for space exploration.

space.com

How Voting Is Like a Klein Bottle | Quanta Magazine

A new topological model connects a centuries-old voting paradox to a surface with no distinct inside or outside.

quantamagazine.org

On this day in space! Oct. 25, 1671: Astronomer Giovanni Cassini discovers Iapetus, Saturn

Iapetus was the second moon anyone had ever found orbiting Saturn.

space.com

The World’s 10 Most 'Cursed' Places: A Guide to Dangerous Destinations

Some of these places look like dream destinations until you learn the disasters hiding underneath

zmescience.com

Scientists Trapped an Antimatter Particle for Months to Study Its Secrets

These elusive and reactive particles have been challenging to hold on to and even more challenging to study, but a new method paves the way for tests on the differences between matter and antimatter.

wired.com

Lumina Simulation Brings the Early Universe to Life on a Record-Breaking Scale

phys.org

Three giant black holes discovered in a galaxy from the dawn of time

Astronomers have discovered three actively feeding black holes inside a single galaxy more than 12.5 billion light-years away, revealing a remarkable scene from the universe’s infancy. Two of the black holes are separated by just 620 light-years and are expected to eventually merge, while a third lurks farther away. One weighs an astonishing 80 million suns, and another is growing faster than conventional theories predict.

sciencedaily.com

6 stellar images of the early universe

The most detailed simulation of our universe’s first 2 billion years to date.

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Rare Lunar Meteorites Could Fill Gaps In Moon’s Evolution

Almost all meteorites come from asteroids, not the Moon or Mars. But after decades of analysis of the Apollo samples, researchers still rely on lunar meteorites to better understand our anomalously large Moon.

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Why You Cannot Tickle Yourself. The Answer Reveals How Your Brain Predicts Everything.

econopass.com · Marco Bellinari You have the same nerve endings, the same fingers, and the same skin. But you cannot tickle yourself. The reason reveals something your brain is doing every second of your life, predicting everything before it happens, and filtering out what it already knows is coming.

econopass.com

Your Teenager's First Heartbreak Is Not Drama. The Pain Is Neurologically Identical to Physical Injury.

mumblog.org · Lila Sjöberg When your teenager says heartbreak feels like physical pain, they are not exaggerating. Brain scans show that social rejection activates the same neural pathways as a physical injury. What parents call drama, neuroscience calls a genuine physiological event.

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Who Should Have a Say in Which Species Are Saved? The California Condor Offers Some Lessons.

phys.org

Orangutans Prefer Things Associated With Laughter Even When the Rewards Are Identical

An unusual experiment suggests laughter can change how orangutans remember and value their experiences.

zmescience.com

New mRNA Vaccine Reduces Risk of Melanoma Recurrence by Over 40 Percent

The vaccine is personalized to a patient’s tumor, and results from the Phase 3 trial are yet another example of the promise of mRNA vaccines in treating cancer.

wired.com

A 1,000-Mile Cloud on Mars May Reveal Physics Never Before Seen in Nature

arstechnica.com

6 ways bats are surprisingly human

We share more in common with our winged mammal compatriots than what meets the eye.

popsci.com

This Week In Space podcast: Episode 233 — The Artemis Generation

The STEM Pipeline for Space

space.com

A hidden bias in human language challenges 70 years of science

A groundbreaking study challenges 70 years of assumptions about how human language works. By analyzing billions of word uses, scientists discovered that meaning is organized around power, danger, and order rather than emotion alone. Even more surprisingly, human language shows a powerful hidden preference for safety, suggesting that our words may reflect ancient survival instincts.

sciencedaily.com

You Cannot Reason Your Teenager Out of an Emotion. Their Brain Is Not Wired to Respond to Logic That Way.

mumblog.org · Lila Sjöberg Every parent has tried it: the calm, logical argument delivered to a teenager mid-meltdown. It never works. It turns out this is not a parenting failure. It is neuroscience. The teenage brain under emotional stress is structurally less able to receive rational input. Here is what the research says to do instead.

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Space Force Says It Needs a New Spaceport by 2030. The Pentagon Is Weighing Its Options.

arstechnica.com

A Team of Astronomers Thinks They Have Identified the Exact Night Sky That Inspired Vincent van Gogh's 'Starry Night.' Not Everyone Is Convinced

Very few night skies seen from the south of France during the summer of 1889 would match the scene on van Gogh's canvas. A new study argues that it could have been July 22

smithsonianmag.com

Malaria Parasite Caught in the Act of Breaking and Entering | Quanta Magazine

To invade red blood cells, the deadly protists create temporary molecular portals that disappear behind them — doors we can now see in fine detail.

quantamagazine.org

12 striking images from European Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2026

From slumbering bats in the caves of Hungary to peaceful bison in rural Poland.

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