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Could Neanderthals Speak Like Us?

39m ago

Plants Can Hear the Sound of Falling Rain

1h ago

(Almost) A Eulogy for Voyager

2h ago

The Australian Rocks That House the Oldest Life-Forms on Earth

3h ago

The New Pitviper Species Hidden in China’s Panda Park

4h ago

Massive Intelligent Octopuses Once Stalked the Primordial Oceans

5h ago

The Origins of Uranus’ Distant Rings Hint at a Hidden Moon

Wed

The Ancient Roots of the Crab Walk

Wed

The Nautilus Reading List of Science Biographies

Wed

Earth Day Started with an Oil Spill

Wed

The Most Soothing Kinds of Nature Sounds

Wed

Why These Monkeys Are Eating Fistfuls of Dirt

Wed

The Mystery of the Giant Blobs at the Center of the Earth

Tue

Rome Was Built Today

Tue

The Peace That an Eclipse Brings

Tue

Mars Curiosity Rover Makes a Big Find on the Red Planet

Tue

What a Parrot Means When It Says Your Name

Tue

Mushrooms Stole a Trick From Bacteria. It Could Help Us Control the Weather

Mon

What It Would Be Like to Surf Five Distant Planets

Mon

The Ghost of Microgravity in Astronauts’ Brains

Mon

A Brief History of the Bizarre-Looking Anglerfish

Mon

Cocaine Fish: How Salmon Behave When Amped Up on Coke

Mon

Defending Our Consciousness Against the Algorithms

Sat

How Lonely Walks in Nature Can Make You Feel Less Alone

Fri

Arachnophobes Beware: Tarantulas Are Way Smarter Than You Think

Fri

An Ancient Mummy’s Tooth Could Rewrite Script of Scarlet Fever in the New World

Fri

Humans Evolving, One Way or Another

Fri

The New Science of the Near-Death Experience

Fri

Check Out the Largest 3-D Map of the Universe

Fri

Oldest Reptile Mummy Sheds Light on the Ancient Art of Breathing

Thu

The Coming Psychedelic Holiday

Thu

Why Middle-Aged Americans Are in Crisis

Thu

Was the Grand Canyon Born from an Ancient Lake Spillover?

Thu

Largest Known Collection of Bees Discovered Living in a Cemetery

Thu

The Genetic Roots of Extreme Morning Sickness

Apr 15

The Birth of Genius

Apr 15

Why Are Gray Whales Dying in the San Francisco Bay?

Apr 15

Why Feeling Lonely Increases Your Risk for Heart Valve Disease

Apr 15

Can the Brain Survive Cryonic Sleep?

Apr 15

Watch These Birds Use Their Tongues to Suck Up Nectar

Apr 15

Astronauts as Influencers

Apr 14

Why You Should Let Your Biological Clock Schedule Workouts

Apr 14

The Bra-and-Girdle Maker That Fashioned the Impossible for NASA

Apr 14

A Rare Cloud Jaguar Photographed Slinking Through the Honduran Forest

Apr 14

New Alzheimer’s Blood Test Promises Earlier Detection

Apr 14

You Could Be Genetically Resistant to GLP-1s

Apr 14

The Best Photos of the Artemis II Mission

Apr 13

The Centuries-Old History of the Super El Niño

Apr 13

Two Supermassive Black Holes Are on a Cosmic Collision Course

Apr 13

Solid Proof That Our Mammal Ancestors Laid Eggs

Apr 13

How Do Fish Know How to Build Nests?

Apr 10

The Bad Seed and the Problem of Blame

Apr 10

Why Kids Have Nightmares and How to Break the Cycle

Apr 10

What Comes After Artemis II

Apr 10

Survival of the Wittiest

Apr 9

The Biological Basis of Imagination

Apr 9

How Nicotine Disrupts the “Lung-Brain Axis”—And Could Lead to Dementia

Apr 9

The Deep Secrets of the Nautilus

Apr 9

This Is How People Who Use Emojis at Work Are Perceived

Apr 9

What Is Your Brain Doing on Psychedelics?

Mon 15m read

Gaia’s Got a Fever

Wed 13m read

A Cosmic Glitch in Gravity

May 15 2024 5m read

Insects and Other Animals Have Consciousness

May 3 2024 11m read

Can Chatbots Hold Meaningful Conversations?

Apr 5 2024 6m read

The Dark Side of Awe

Jan 29 2024 15m read

The Echoes of Light

Dec 29 2023 9m read

How Earth Once Cooled Off

Dec 27 2023 5m read

The Most Beautiful Science of the Year

Dec 22 2023 10m read

Why We Sense Somebody Who Isn’t There

Dec 19 2023 8m read