Lifestyle

Research suggests the feeling that time speeds up with age can be shaped by fewer temporal landmarks — the small disruptions to routine that give the brain something worth remembering

By Brendan Brown – Jul 23, 2026

Ray-finned fishes evolved bioluminescence at least 27 chemistry and others by housing luminous bacteria, a repeated evolutionary experiment spread across deep-sea, inshore and reef lineages using different molecular machinery to make visible light

Below a few hundred metres, sunlight fails and the ocean becomes the largest dark habitat on Earth. Life responded by inventing light — again and again, in lineages that share almost nothing but the trick itself.

By Make Tech Easier Editorial Team – Jul 22, 2026

The Sun is actually white — the yellow we see is Earth’s atmosphere scattering the shorter blue wavelengths away before the light reaches our eyes, which is also why sunsets turn red

The Sun looks yellow from the ground and pure white from orbit, and the reason is not the star itself but the few dozen kilometres of air standing between it and the eye.

By Make Tech Easier Editorial Team – Jul 22, 2026

Each year, roughly 27.7 million tonnes of dust lift off the Sahara, cross the Atlantic on the trade winds, and fall on the Amazon — carrying the phosphorus the rainforest needs to keep growing

The world’s largest rainforest is fertilised, in part, by the world’s largest hot desert. Every year, mineral dust from the Sahara crosses an ocean to keep the Amazon alive.

By Make Tech Easier Editorial Team – Jul 21, 2026

Behavioral scientists found that people without children develop a relationship to mortality that is psychologically distinct — without biological continuation, they must construct meaning through contribution, connection, and presence rather than lineage, and that construction is both harder and, when successful, more intentional than most people realize

By Brendan Brown – Jul 20, 2026

Psychology says people who stack their plates and tidy up before leaving a restaurant aren’t trying to impress anyone — they never forgot what it felt like to be the one who had to clean up after people who didn’t

By Brendan Brown – Jul 20, 2026

I grew up lower-middle class and I’ve noticed that every time I’m asked to describe my childhood I instinctively say “we weren’t rich but we had everything we needed” — and I’ve started wondering who I’m protecting with that sentence, my parents or myself

By Brendan Brown – Jul 20, 2026

Psychology says the loneliest people in a room are often the most socially skilled because they learned early to perform connection instead of feel it

By Brendan Brown – Jul 19, 2026

I’m 38 and I watched my parents retire with everything they worked for — a paid-off house, savings, good health — and then slowly, year by year, become two people who sit in separate rooms scrolling their phones because they forgot how to be interesting to each other

By lachlan – Jul 17, 2026

Psychology says the most dangerous form of loneliness isn’t being alone. It’s being surrounded by people while performing a version of yourself that none of them would recognize if they saw you at home on a Sunday afternoon.

By Brendan Brown – Jul 17, 2026

If you double-check if the door is locked (even when you know it is), psychology says you likely have these 8 distinct traits

By Make Tech Easier Editorial Team – Jun 27, 2026

Psychology says people who push their chair back in when they leave a table usually display these 9 unique behaviors

By Make Tech Easier Editorial Team – Jun 27, 2026