Michael Day

Michael Day is an award-winning freelance journalist and author. He has previously written for titles including The Independent and New Scientist

Recent articles by Michael Day
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The 5 most surprising lessons about psychopaths, from the experts who study them

There’s more to psychopathy than the familiar Hollywood tropes
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Why the US keeps paying $2bn a year to keep GPS free for other countries

From guiding nuclear missiles to staying ahead of China and Russia, here’s the real reason Washington keeps footing the bill
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How to tell if your boss is a narcissist: Scientists discover key new sign

They like to be admired in the flesh, so prefer their team in the office to enjoy being bowed down to in person
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The Neanderthal extinction mystery just got even stranger

Analysis of DNA from Neanderthal bones revealed that a group in Western Europe were surprisingly healthy, shortly before they disappeared
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'Remarkable': Archaeologists find 3,000 objects in Dutch valley from Stone Age to WWII

The finds span thousands of years, confirming how humans have been attracted to water sources for millennia
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Chance of mega earthquake hitting California now at a 'historic high', experts warn

The faults beneath Los Angeles are at their highest stress in 1,000 years – and overdue a release
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Weird signals keep reaching Earth from across the Galaxy – and we may finally have the key to reading them

A mysterious "stellar Rosetta Stone" may crack a code that's puzzled scientists for years
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Part of Earth’s core has switched directions. And nobody really knows why

The event could be part of a natural cycle in iron flows that give Earth its protect magnetic field
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We might finally know how the pyramids were built

New research suggests the answer was hiding inside the structure all along
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We may have just cracked one of Stonehenge's greatest mysteries

A glacier may have carried the site’s massive Altar Stone part of the way from Scotland
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