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Pop Music Is Getting Darker

The tunes that top the charts have been getting more negative for half a century

December 11, 2025

Orcas and Dolphins Glimpsed Fishing Together for Salmon

Combining brain and brawn, the two marine mammals may hunt collaboratively

December 11, 2025

Top Roman Military Officers Loved Their Pet Monkeys

An animal cemetery at a once-bustling port adds to growing evidence that Romans collected and deeply cared for these primates

December 10, 2025

What Laziness Has to do with Beauty

The aesthetic benefits of low mental effort

December 10, 2025

Hobbits May Have Been Victims of Climate Change

New research offers clues into the mysterious disappearance of these tiny hominins

December 10, 2025

What an Ancient Sheep Reveals About a Bronze Age Plague

Scientists found the plague pathogen hiding in a 4,000-year-old sheep, shedding light on the earlier, more elusive pandemic before the Black Death

December 10, 2025

Millions of Years Ago These Animals Shaped the Arabian Sea

Like modern sea cows, these Late Miocene marine mammals engineered their ecosystems

December 10, 2025

This Common Personality Trait May Fuel Serial Killers

A form of narcissism may underlie the psychology of sexually motivated murder

December 10, 2025

How Monogamous Are Humans Actually?

How we rank among species on fidelity to a single partner may have shaped our evolution

December 9, 2025

This Black Hole Blasts Cosmic Wind at 130 Million Miles Per Hour

A staggering glimpse into our beautiful, violent universe

December 9, 2025

Beloved Ancient Chinese Cats Were Wilder Than Once Thought

People in ancient China grew a millennia-spanning friendship with wild felines long before domestic cats came on the scene

December 9, 2025

How Many Insects Fill the Air on a Typical Summer Day in the US?

NOAA weather radar stations help track the ups and downs of insect abundance

December 9, 2025