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Your Dishwasher Could Harbor the Next Chonkus

Scientists want your help identifying marvelous new extremophiles

May 26, 2025

I Bought a Robot Cat for My Rabbit

A TikTok experiment led me into a strange world of cyborg cockroaches, imposter fish, and the ethics of care

May 23, 2025

What Birdsong Says About Motivation

In self-driven learning, performance is its own reward

May 23, 2025

Meet a Newly Discovered Cave Crustacean

This delicate copepod species joins the ranks of a unique and fragile underground ecosystem

May 23, 2025

A Dangerous Kind of Weather

Thirstwaves are drying out croplands

May 22, 2025

The Visual Language of Crystals

Chemistry becomes art in Thomas Blanchard’s timelapse video

May 22, 2025

Hilma af Klint Celebrates the Supernatural in Nature

The Swedish artist’s eccentric botanic illustrations, on view publicly for the first time, weave mysticism with painstaking accuracy

May 21, 2025

It’s the Secret Doctors Keep from You

Two physicians get frank about uncertainty in medicine

May 21, 2025

A Snout of Significance

This Ecuadorian lizard uses its remarkable proboscis for wooing, not warring

May 21, 2025

The Largest Iceberg on Earth Is Stuck

A new view of the berg shows it’s losing its edge

How Indigenous Knowledge Could Save Fishing

We need both modern data and the wisdom of the First Nations to preserve aquatic ecosystems

May 20, 2025

Why Birds Sing So Differently

A comic explains the highs and lows of birdsong