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Science Illustrated, 11 Mag 2026

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ArticleHit your thumb? Swear­ing helps.

There is indeed research which shows that you can ease your pain (tem­por­ar­ily) this way. One of the most well-known exper­i­ments was con­duc­ted by psy­cho­lo­gist Richard Steph­ens at the UK’s Keele Uni­versity in 2009. Par­ti­cipants were asked...

Hit your thumb? Swear­ing helps.

ArticleSEDNA

SIZE: 995km dia­meter DISTANCE FROM EARTH: up to 140bn km DURATION OF SOLAR ORBIT: 11,400 years

SEDNA

ArticleDWARF PLANETS & THE RACE TO SEDNA

There are only five offi­cial dwarf plan­ets, but astro­nomers estim­ate dozens to hun­dreds more are out there. Sedna comes close to the Sun only once every 11,400 years, and NASA plans to inter­cept it. Sedna takes 11,400 years to orbit the Sun, so...

DWARF PLANETS & THE RACE TO SEDNA

ArticleWHAT MADE HUMAN BRAINS GROW?

Sci­ence has long sug­ges­ted that fresh meat promp­ted brain growth in early humans, but hunt­ing required brain growth in the first place. Did we get smart eat­ing pickled veg­gies? A few mil­lion years ago, the human brain began to grow...

WHAT MADE HUMAN BRAINS GROW?

ArticleEGGS – NATURE’S INGENIOUS PACKAGING

We crack them open for break­fast without a second thought, yet eggs are highly soph­ist­ic­ated incub­at­ors. Let’s raise a toast to the incred­ible over-engin­eered egg.

EGGS – NATURE’S INGENIOUS PACKAGING