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Orangutans don’t just chew the first leaf they find. After a 20-year field study in the Sebangau peat swamp in Central …
Badoo identified six physical traits that tend to get women more messages and replies from men. Those traits are height, eye color, hair color, body type, nail condition, and a…
Once, launching a satellite required a massive program and a huge budget. Satellites used to be van- or bus-sized; national space agencies and aerospace giants built them and sent them…
A research team at the Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources (KIGAM), working with GodTech, developed a way to convert wet coffee grounds into high-quality biochar in just 90…
Astrophysicists announced the discovery of an extremely dark galaxy — an object whose mass is about 99.9 percent dark matter. The galaxy emits almost no light, so it could provide…
There’s growing scientific evidence that dogs can spot cancer — but only when the animals are specially trained. What the research shows In a number of studies, researchers analyzed breath,…
Common rodent poisons may not work as well as they used to. A new study found that a large share of house mice and a sizable portion of urban rats…
A study found restaurant diners rated bearded waiters as less hygienic — guests preferred clean-shaven servers. The idea that beards are dirtier than shaved faces has been around for decades,…
A new study found a surprising trick the body uses to control blood sugar: in low-oxygen environments, red blood cells soak up extra glucose and convert it into a molecule…
A new ultrathin protective layer—what the authors call a “molecular water armor”—lets many stains rinse away with plain water, no detergent required. Researchers estimate this could slash household laundry water…
Public speaking, or even a difficult one-on-one conversation, can feel terrifying when you have something important to say. Paradoxically, the most effective way to beat that fear is to make…
One sense can pull you back in time faster than any other. Catch the smell of modeling clay and you might suddenly recall your first days of school, or a…
Consciousness, put simply, is the aspect of being that answers the question “what is it like” — for example, you can meaningfully ask how a person or a donkey feels,…
Researchers at the University of Trento in Italy showed that the direction a dog wags its tail isn’t random. Dogs that feel comfortable tend to wag to the right from…
3I/Atlas, the interstellar comet that swept past last year, could be surprisingly ancient — possibly as old as 12 billion years. A new study published in Nature estimates the comet’s…
Men tend to develop cardiovascular disease about seven years earlier than women, based on long-term data from the CARDIA study (Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults). The study followed…
This find offers a rare window into the industrial side of everyday life in ancient Pannonia. Archaeological materials show the area around Bicske was active across multiple historical periods. Past…
Divers and naturalists often find octopuses hiding in bottles, jars, tin cans, bits of plastic, and even spoons. These clever animals regularly use human debris as temporary shelters. A Bottle…
Every week brings new science stories that hint at where technology is headed. Here are a few technologies likely to shape everyday life by 2050. 1. Space as big business…
When you rinse raw rice, the water turns pale and milky. That cloudy water comes from a layer of surface starch left on the grains after harvest and milling. Washing…
The “immortal” jellyfish, Turritopsis dohrnii, can reset its life cycle after a lethal injury. About the size of a pea, this little sea creature settles on the seafloor, retracts its…
At the gate of an ancient mountain city, archaeologists found a blunt political message. Professor Mustafa Koçak, the lead archaeologist at the Güllük Mountain National Park dig, said one recently…
What direction do you pick when you enter an art gallery, museum, or shopping mall? Most people, without thinking, head left! In the film “Zoolander,” Ben Stiller’s character comically struggles…
In the 1930s British psychologist Frederick Bartlett asked volunteers to retell a Native American tale, “The War of the Ghosts,” several times over weeks and months. He noticed the story…
Two States of Sleep Sleep isn’t a single state — it breaks into two very different physiological modes. One is REM sleep (rapid eye movement); the other is NREM sleep…
Michael MacDonald, who leads a research team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and his colleagues found that a central cavity in a galaxy is tied to two supermassive black…
Rescue excavations in Antakya, in Turkey’s Hatay province, uncovered a marble funerary stele dating to about 2,100 years ago. The stele now sits in the Hatay Archaeology Museum. Carved from…
In the last decade, mindfulness went from a niche practice to a go-to for stress relief — but it doesn’t help everyone. Mindfulness, the practice of intentionally focusing attention on…
Can you resist saying no when your dog stares at you with those sad eyes? Fine — here’s another treat. In that moment, are you simply giving in to your…
Stone tombstones were luxury items in the 13th century and usually signaled high social rank. So the person buried under this slab most likely belonged to the local elite—perhaps a…
In the 1980s, psychologist James Pennebaker developed a method called expressive writing to help people work through trauma and psychological distress. Putting feelings into words creates a sense of safety:…
The Sun has its own internal “music” — and that rhythm helps shape space weather. Solar flares and eruptions of charged particles create dangerous conditions near Earth, so it’s urgent…
Tobacco has been used for millennia, and chemists first isolated nicotine from the plant in the late 1820s. Now, 200 years later, biologists report that they have uncovered exactly how…
The hoard consists of three tightly coiled gold spirals that at first glance could look like bracelets, but inspection shows they are neck rings or collar rings, wound to fit…
The answer was hiding in an unexpected place — the immune system. A study in Science finds that special immune cells in pigeons’ livers—macrophages—are extremely sensitive to Earth’s magnetic field…
For decades researchers assumed wheel-running meant one thing: cage neurosis. They often compared it to doing push-ups in a prison cell. But recent studies show we were wrong about what…
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics assembled the largest dataset ever of facial-attractiveness ratings: 52 studies from 76 countries. The final dataset contains more than 1.5 million…
If you can read this, you’re probably sure of one thing: you’re conscious. Your relatives, neighbors, and friends seem conscious too — they act like people and appear to share…
Researchers analyzed more than 215,000 moves from roughly 3,600 official games and found top players were more likely to pick the best move when they moved faster. That doesn’t mean…
Preliminary dating places the sanctuary’s earliest phase in the 5th–4th centuries B.C., when the Veneti — a people with their own language and script — lived in northeastern Italy and…
A crash analysis of about 2,000 road crashes in Austria found women are far more likely than men to be injured in the chest, spine, arms, and legs. Project coordinator…
Almost everything we do leaves an environmental mark — and that now includes our online behavior. What we eat, how we travel, and how we run our homes have long…
Tiny tyrannosaur arms have puzzled paleontologists for decades. A new study from University College London (UCL) offers a straightforward, convincing answer: the forelimbs shrank as massive, powerful skulls and jaws…
A common green mineral could help turn oceans into long-term carbon sinks. Olivine is a green silicate mineral that’s common in nature. When rain or seawater reaches olivine, the mineral…
Compared with other primates, our population-level right-hand bias really stands out. Chimpanzees, gorillas, and monkeys may favor one hand for specific tasks, but no other species shows the kind of…
AI is already reshaping everything—from how we work to how we live—and no one can fully predict how far those changes will go. At the same time, conversations about the…
Yawning isn’t just human — it shows up across mammals, which suggests it serves an important brain function. A study from the University of Parma adds a surprising twist: the…
AI services from OpenAI, Meta, Google, and others can translate dozens of languages almost instantly and keep getting better. But there’s a difference between using a tool to extend what…
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