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Moon Marbles Hint at Lunar Depths

A mantle-rocking asteroid impact could have made curious glass beads on the surface

May 16, 2025

Enlisting Paparazzi to Save a Gigantic Fish

Crowd-sourced data on the giant sea bass suggest it's making a rebound

May 15, 2025

5 Devious Ways People Made Bugs Into Bombs

Insects are among the oldest of weaponry

May 15, 2025

Maybe I Am the Asshole?

What a popular subreddit can tell us about everyday morality

May 15, 2025

AI Could Help Humans Understand Animals

But are animal dictionaries enough to demystify the animal mind?

May 15, 2025

Plant Sex and the City

Plants around the world are adapting their reproductive strategies to survive on an increasingly urban planet

Poetry Gives Us Power

How Marianne Moore’s poem The Fish helps us see the world more clearly

May 14, 2025

Storm Chasers on the Hail Trail

The quest to map a costly weather phenomenon

Feather Forensics Could Help Nab Poachers

Chemical analysis of a bird’s feathers offers a reliable way to tell whether it was captive-born or wild-caught

May 13, 2025

Sailing Weather Gets Weird

Despite the latest forecasting science, climate change threw a wrench into this writer's latest seafaring voyage

May 13, 2025

Conspiracy Theorists Can Be Deprogrammed

AI-delivered evidence might be better at changing minds than you are

May 12, 2025

The Most Charming Villain in the Sky

Author Mike Stark on the 3 greatest revelations he had while writing his new book about starlings

May 12, 2025