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The Table Condiment That Powers Plant-Eating Giants

Some parts of Africa lack megaherbivores—salt scarcity in the environment could explain why

December 9, 2025

What Robots Can Learn from Classical Indian Dance

A “superhuman” alphabet for the hands

December 9, 2025

Exploding Stars Like We’ve Never Seen Them

A super crisp look at novae suggests they’re far more chaotic than once thought

December 8, 2025

You Don’t Need a Big Brain to Fly

New research into the ancestors of pterosaurs reveals surprising clues to the evolution of flight

December 8, 2025

Does Anger Aggravate Pain?

The surprising connection between feelings of injustice and bodily aches

December 8, 2025

Potential Deep-Sea Mining Site Harbors Scores of New Species

Troves of invertebrates inhabit the sediments of the Clarion-Clipperton Zone

December 8, 2025

How the Breath Guides Memory

Remembering is timed to the rhythms of our lungs

December 8, 2025

A Speed Camera for the Universe

Astronomers developed a clever method to measure our universe’s expansion

December 5, 2025

Are We Finally Over the “Jaws Effect?”

Most people in a recent survey saw sharks as neutral, coinciding with a global treaty to protect declining species

December 5, 2025

When a Chimp Screams, What Do You Hear?

The calls of our closest living evolutionary cousins still hit an ancient target in the human brain

December 5, 2025

Satellite Photobombing Is Disrupting Space Telescope Astronomy

Yet another peril of a teeming low Earth orbit

December 5, 2025