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Mother Bats’ Hearts Quicken When They Hear Baby’s Cries

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Ice Age Europeans Were More Connected Than We Thought

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How Multiple Births Can Accelerate A Mother’s Biological Age

4h ago

Was This the Exact Date of Van Gogh’s “Starry Night”?

7h ago

These Are the Most Stunning Weather Photos of the Year

9h ago

Forensic Facial Specialists Can Identify People Using Just a Couple Facial Features

Thu

Is This the First Corporate Psychopath?

Thu

LSD May Speed Up Brain Activity and Make it Fractal

Thu

We Now Know What Denisovans Looked Like

Thu

A New Fossil Hints at the Surprising Origins of Snakes

Thu

Watch Humpback Whales Team Up With Sea Lions to Hunt

Thu

The Surprising Origins of Native Hawaiians

Wed

How Crocodiles Survived the Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs

Wed

To See the World Through a Kaleidoscope of Butterflies

Wed

Drinking Tea May Reduce Vascular Disease Risk

Wed

The World’s Largest Penguin Colony Suffers Catastrophic Loss

Wed

Be Nice to Your Chatbot

Wed

63 Years Ago This Week, Félicette Became the First Cat in Space

Wed

Primates Also Become Germophobes After Living Through a Viral Outbreak

Tue

Are Our Hearts Strong Enough to Get to Mars?

Tue

The Most Unsettling Books We Know

Tue

How Hunger Can Trigger Alcohol Cravings

Tue

This Giant Waterlily Species Was Discovered Via Instagram

Tue

What Makes Life Beautiful?

Tue

Walking May Improve Your Attention Span

Mon

Longevity Research Has a Bullshit Problem

Mon

“It Feels Like Something Out of Science Fiction”: Astronomers Find First Green Star

Mon

The Wildlife Photo of the Year May Break Your Heart

Mon

Teen Girls Are Now More Likely to Vape Than Boys

Mon

How Our Brains Read Emotions in Other People

Mon

Watch This Snake Cartwheel Away From Danger

Mon

Early Humans in America Endured Climate Chaos

Sun

Americans Who Go to Church and Trust Science Are Also More Likely to Believe in Ghosts and Curses

Sun

Can We Ditch BMI for an Obesity Index That Predicts Disease Risk Better?

Sat

Replacing Just 10 Percent of Ultra‑processed Foods with Whole Foods Linked to Drop in Bowel Cancer Rate

Sat

Workers Who Fear AI May be More Prone to Slacking Off

Fri

How Our Skin Reveals the Link Between Insomnia and Fear

Fri

Meet Loki the Sea Cucumber, One of 57 Newly Discovered Deep-Sea Species

Fri

A Stunning Nebula Image Predicts How Our Sun Will Die

Fri

First Case of Teeth Growing Out of an Eye Socket

Fri

Even Dogs Seem to Experience the Mysterious Bouba/Kiki Effect

Oct 15

This Fish Is the Kobayashi of the Sea

Oct 15

How Prehistoric People Survived After One of the Worst Volcanic Eruptions in History

Oct 15

Here’s How Freaky the Universe Would Look If Light Slowed to 3 Miles Per Hour

Oct 15

Why Story and Playtime Really Matter

Oct 15

After Dinosaurs Died, a Massive Fungus Inherited the Forests

Oct 15

Was This Neanderthal Murdered?

Oct 15

New Feathered Dinosaur is the First Megaraptor Discovered in Europe

Oct 14

ISS Astronaut Spots Moon-like Mountains From Space

Oct 14

This Prehistoric Alaskan Camp is Rewriting the History of Beringia

Oct 14

The Death of a Russian Plague Researcher, Explained by a Microbiologist

Oct 14

Our Messy Cyborg Past and Future

Oct 14

Was Human Language Born Around the Campfire?

Oct 14

NASA Shares Image of a Galactic Smiley Face

Oct 13

Elephants Engineer Their Ecosystems Even in Death

Oct 13

Deep-Sea Mining Faces Another Hurdle—Exploding Rocks

Oct 13

Check Out the Natural Beauty of the Natural Landscape Photography Awards

Oct 13

Leap Seconds Have Helped Keep Clocks Synchronized with Earth’s Rotation, But Their Time May Be Over

Oct 13

The Key to Multilingualism Lies in the Ears, Not the Mouth

Oct 13

Can GLP-1s Slow Aging?

Oct 12

Mere Minutes With AI Causes a Sharp Drop in Persistence

Oct 12

These New Snails Can Slam Shut Their Shells Like Doors

Oct 12

This Is the Oldest Peace Treaty Ever Discovered

Oct 12

Blood Cells From an 80-Year-Old Transformed into Young Brain Cells

Oct 12

I Seeded My Dreams and This Story Emerged

Oct 12

A Distant Planet Emitted a Burst of Radio Waves. Why?

Oct 11

The Secret Superpowers of Amphibians and Reptiles

Oct 10

The Placenta Is More Powerful—and More Mysterious—Than You Think

Oct 10

Why Old Dogs Might Be Able to Teach Alzheimer’s Researchers New Tricks

Oct 10

Check Out the Mouthparts on This New Prehistoric Insect

Oct 9

Did These Microbes Eat A Lot of the Fossil Record?

Oct 9

See the Artemis II Crew’s Handwritten Notes Documenting the Lunar Surface

Oct 9

Mosasaurs Were Capable of Explosive Speed

Oct 9

Scared of Shots? A Favorite Tune Helps Mute the Pain

Oct 9

This Photo of the Martian Dawn Could Be Curiosity’s Most Serene Image Yet

Oct 9

I’m Part of the Team Writing the Next Bible of Psychiatry—For the First Time, the DSM Will Use Biology to Understand Mental Disorders

Aug 29

What Is Your Brain Doing on Psychedelics?

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Gaia’s Got a Fever

Sep 17 2025 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