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Scratch My Back and I’ll Scratch Yours

Orcas in Washington are creating grooming tools out of kelp stalks

June 23, 2025

The Sublime Smarts of Slime Molds

These single-celled blobs show intelligent behavior

June 23, 2025

The Woman Behind the World’s Biggest Camera

Vera Rubin overcame abundant obstacles to become a leading light in cosmology

June 23, 2025

What If Every Roadkill Had a Memorial?

Road ecology meets community science

June 20, 2025

What We Misunderstand About Robots

Sci-fi master Adrian Tchaikovsky on evolution, other minds, and the politics of science

June 20, 2025

How Neanderthals Got to Siberia

They trekked for 2,000 years across formidable terrain

June 19, 2025

The Hornbills Left Behind

Protecting Asian species may have shifted poachers’ focus to African birds

June 19, 2025

How Ancient Beasts Spread Sweet Fruits

The native forests of South America were shaped by mastodons—and we’re doing a bad job filling their role

June 18, 2025

Sleep Has No Magic Number

People who sleep according to their culture’s norms are healthier overall

June 18, 2025

How to Build a Planet from Dust

The answer is blowing in the (stellar) wind

Finding Peter Putnam

The forgotten janitor who discovered the logic of the mind

June 17, 2025