On a Remote Island, Capuchins Are Abducting Baby Monkeys From Another Species. Scientists Are Stunned
A puzzling trend among capuchins ends in death for their abducted howler monkey infants.
A Medieval Skeleton With a Shattered Knee Just Changed What We Thought About Disability in the Middle Ages
A wounded man in 14th-century Lund reshapes how we understand care, status, and disability.
The Eyes Really Are the Window to the Mind and This Study Proves It
The size of your pupils may reveal just how clearly you remember something.
Bird Flu Is Killing Cats and Is on a Dangerous Path Toward Humans
An under-monitored feline epidemic could be the spark for the next human pandemic.
Scientists Gave a Mouse a Stretch of Human DNA and Its Brain Grew 6% Bigger
A single DNA enhancer may help explain the human brain’s extraordinary size and complexity.
Scientists Found a Neanderthal Population That Lived in Total Isolation for 50,000 Years
A fossil in France rewrites what we know about Neanderthal isolation and extinction
Doctors Warn That Bringing Your Phone to the Bathroom Could Backfire in a Painful Way
Smartphone use while pooping linked to higher hemorrhoid risk, survey suggests
Scientists Just Discovered What Happens in Your Brain During an Eureka Moment
Sudden epiphanies may double memory by reorganizing the brain
Hidden Communication Devices Found in Chinese-Made Inverters Could Put U.S. Electrical Grid at Risk
U.S. experts uncover rogue communication devices inside solar inverters and batteries
Patients on Weight Loss Drugs Like Wegovy May Say They Just Don’t Want to Drink Anymore
Researchers discover semaglutide and liraglutide cut drinking by two-thirds in real-world trial
RFK Jr, Nation’s Top Health Official, Refuses to Recommend the Measles Vaccine, Says ‘I Don’t Think People Should Be Taking Medical Advice from Me’
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. won’t say whether he’d vaccinate his kids today.
More People Are Dying from Broken Heart Syndrome Than Anyone Realized
New study finds 'broken heart syndrome' as fatal as it is misunderstood
This Assassin Bug Uses Chemical Trick as Fake Emergency Call to Lure Bees to Their Death
A clever invertebrate uses chemical cues to lure its prey straight into its grasp
Wild Chimpanzees Are Combining Calls in Ways That Mirror Human Speech, Hint At Origins of Language
Chimp vocal combinations hint at roots of human language.
99.999% of the Seafloor Is Still a Mystery We Haven’t Explored
The deep seafloor remains a mystery—only 0.001% has been seen.
Flamingos Create Underwater Tornadoes to Suck Up Their Prey
Pink birds spin water tornados to trap prey like underwater spiderwebs
This is absolutely the best way to crack an egg, according to science
The side of the egg is, surprisingly, more resilient. It acts like a shock absorber.
A Nearby Star Sings a Stellar Tune, and Scientists can Hear Its Age
A 10-billion-year-old star's subtle vibrations rewrite rules of stellar aging and structure
Inside Amazon’s Secretive Plan to Blanket Earth with Internet from Space
Amazon’s Project Kuiper aims to beam internet from space—but raises questions on debris, sky glow.
Ancient British Miners Shipped Tin All the Way to the Pharaohs
Before London even existed, people in Britain were supplying the Mediterranean civilizations.
The UK just trained a health AI on 57 million people to predict disease
A new AI trained on nearly all of England’s health data may reshape medicine.
People Spend $12,000 to Tattoo Their Eyes and Change Their Color but the Risks Are Still Unknown
A new cosmetic trend lets people tattoo their corneas to change eye color.
The Cubist of the Undergrowth: Scientists Discover Snail with Picasso-Like Shell
A tiny new snail species echoes the angular spirit of modern art.
Sexual Fantasies During Surgery Are a Disturbing Side Effect of Sedatives No One Talks About
Some anesthetics and sedatives may trigger vivid sexual fantasies — or hallucinations of assault
Scientists Map the DNA of a Mysterious Creature Called the Asian Unicorn That No One’s Seen in Years
The saola’s newly sequenced genome offers hope for one of Earth’s rarest mammals.
AI Would Obliterate the Nazi’s WWII Enigma Code in Minutes—Here’s Why That Matters Today
AI cracked a wartime Enigma code in under 13 minutes.
He Let Snakes Bite Him Over 200 Times and Now Scientists Want His Blood for an Universal Antivenom
A universal snakebite treatment may be within reach, thanks to an unlikely human experiment.
These companies want to make hand bags out of T-rex leather. But scientists aren’t buying it
A lab-grown leather inspired by dinosaur skin sparks excitement—and scientific skepticism
A Lawyer Put a Cartoon Dragon Watermark on Every Page of a Court Filing and The Judge Was Not Amused
A Michigan judge rebukes lawyer for filing documents with cartoon dragon watermark
This Priest Was Embalmed With Wood Chips Through His Rectum—And It Worked Surprisingly Well
A strange embalming technique emerges from the annals of history.
Neanderthals Crafted Bone Spears 30,000 Years Before Modern Humans Came In
An 80,000-year-old spear point rewrites what we thought we knew about Neanderthals.
We Don’t Know How AI Works. Anthropic Wants to Build an “MRI” to Find Out
A leading AI lab says we must decode models before they decode us
Climbing gyms are as polluted as busy city streets — and shoes are to blame
Rubber particles from climbing shoes may expose gymgoers to levels of pollution found on city streets
Cicadacore: Scientists Turn Summer’s Loudest Insects into Musical Cyborgs
Researchers hijack cicadas' song organs to play music—including Pachelbel's Canon.
How Declassified Cold War Satellite Images Are Helping Find Bombs and Mines Buried for Decades in Southeast Asia
Old spy satellites and new AI help unearth the hidden bombs of Southeast Asia.
Your Brain Data May be Up For Sale and It’s Totally Legal (For Now), Say U.S. Senators
Lawmakers warn brainwave data could expose mental health and be sold without consent.
This Indigenous Group Doesn’t Sing to Babies or Dance—and It’s Reshaping Anthropology
Cultural trauma and loss can silence even the most human of traditions.
Humans are really bad at healing. But that also helped us survive
It's a quirk tied to our thick skin, sweat glands, and sparse body hair.
This Scottish Field Could Be the World’s Oldest Football Pitch
A quiet Scottish pasture may upend everything we thought we knew about football’s birthplace.
Chinese Student Got Rescued from Mount Fuji—Then Went Back for His Phone and Needed Saving Again
A student was saved two times in four days after ignoring warnings to stay off Mount Fuji.
The perfect pub crawl: mathematicians solve most efficient way to visit all 81,998 bars in South Korea
This is the longest pub crawl ever solved by scientists.
This Film Shaped Like Shark Skin Makes Planes More Aerodynamic and Saves Billions in Fuel
Mimicking shark skin may help aviation shed fuel—and carbon
British archaeologists find ancient coin horde “wrapped like a pasty”
Archaeologists discover 11th-century coin hoard, shedding light on a turbulent era.
The Fat Around Your Thighs Might Be Affecting Your Mental Health
New research finds that where fat is stored—not just how much you have—might shape your mood.
Astronauts May Soon Eat Fresh Fish Farmed on the Moon
Scientists hope Lunar Hatch will make fresh fish part of space missions' menus.
America’s Cornfields Could Power the Future—With Solar Panels, Not Ethanol
Small solar farms could deliver big ecological and energy benefits, researchers find.
Plants and Vegetables Can Breathe In Microplastics Through Their Leaves and It Is Already in the Food We Eat
Leaves absorb airborne microplastics, offering a new route into the food chain.
Explorers Find a Vintage Car Aboard a WWII Shipwreck—and No One Knows How It Got There
NOAA researchers—and the internet—are on the hunt to solve the mystery of how it got there.
Teen Influencer Watches Her Bionic Hand Crawl Across a Table on Its Own
The future of prosthetics is no longer science fiction.
New Quantum Navigation System Promises a Backup to GPS — and It’s 50 Times More Accurate
An Australian startup’s device uses Earth's magnetic field to navigate with quantum precision.