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On September 8, 2004, NASA’s Genesis capsule—carrying solar-wind atoms implanted in wafers of sapphire, silicon and other ultrapure materials—struck the Utah desert at 311 kilometres per hour after four gravity switches, installed backward according to a faulty design drawing, failed to command its parachutes to open.
4+ day, 16+ hour ago (707+ words) Genesis reached Utah with its solar-wind samples, but a design error prevented its parachutes from opening. Scientists recovered useful measurements from the broken collectors. By The Long View · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published September 8, 2026 · How we edit Genesis carried four…...
The idea that we most regret the things we never did is genuinely backed by research, with two refinements the slogan misses: it is specifically a long-run pattern, and the deepest of these regrets are about the person we hoped to become and didn't
3+ week, 4+ hour ago (559+ words) ScienceBlog.com is an independent daily science news publication covering peer-reviewed research across all major scientific disciplines. Founded in 2002, it is one of the longest-running science news sites on the internet. It curates and reports on breakthroughs from universities, research…...
Being intelligent and being able to read people are close to separate skills: a meta-analysis put the correlation between measured intelligence and interpersonal accuracy at about 0.19, and a well-known reading-the-eyes test found no link to IQ at all
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (487+ words) The smartest people in the room aren't necessarily the best at reading it—intelligence and interpersonal accuracy are nearly unrelated skills, upending a persistent myth about how the mind works. By Science Blog Editorial Team · Edited by Graeme Brown Published…...
People with broad vocabularies often score higher on intelligence tests, but no word can identify a smart person: these 10 terms test verbal knowledge, not the full range of human intelligence
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (1148+ words) Knowing rare words signals education and experience, but a failed vocabulary test reveals nothing about how your mind actually works. Published August 4, 2026 · How we edit Can you define inchoate without looking it up? What about quotidian or synecdoche? A strong…...
Intelligent people can still be surprisingly bad at knowing when they are wrong, because solving a problem and judging the reliability of your own answer are partly separate mental tasks
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (1063+ words) Confidence and competence are wired differently in the brain than we assume, which means even the smartest people can be dangerously sure they're right. Published August 4, 2026 · How we edit A person can solve a difficult problem quickly, explain the reasoning…...
The size of a person's vocabulary is one of the best single predictors of their general intelligence, not because big words make anyone smarter, but because quietly acquiring and keeping thousands of them draws on the same ability an IQ test measures
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (677+ words) The vocabulary test reveals not what you know, but how your mind works—the same mental machinery that powers every form of intelligence. Published August 3, 2026 · How we edit Here is a fact that sounds like a party trick but is…...
We argue about what true intelligence really is, but the most replicated finding in a century of research is oddly simple: people who are good at one kind of mental test tend to be good at all the others
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (752+ words) One factor predicts success across every mental task ever measured—a discovery so consistent it has survived a century of scientific debate. By Lachlan Brown · Editorial process Published August 1, 2026 I want to be upfront about something before I start: I…...
A Cloud of Cold Atoms Just Told Time Without a Clock
3+ mon, 12+ hour ago (314+ words) Strip away every clock in the universe. No ticking, no pendulums, no caesium atoms counting out the second. Now ask yourself a question that has bothered...
The Year Astronomers Thought Dark Energy Might Disappear
3+ mon, 12+ hour ago (315+ words) Stars at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, via the Spitzer Space telescope - credit NASA, JPL-Caltech, S Stolovy (SSCCaltech). It did not. A new study led by the University of Southampton has gone back over the same data and…...
How Pushing a Material to Its Breaking Point Could Unlock the Quantum Entanglement Hidden Inside It
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (466+ words) So a team at Rice University has taken a different tack. Rather than crank up the coupling, they propose weakening the matter’s resolve. The idea, laid out in a recent paper in Nature Communications, is to nudge a quantum material…...