A Man Had COVID For 750 Days Straight and His Body Became an Incubator For Virus Evolution

Learn more about the longest documented case of COVID-19 found in an American man living with HIV.

AI Supports Dishonesty in Humans, Making It Easier for Users to Cheat With an Accomplice

In the rise of AI, dishonesty has never been easier, making cheating for profit and other unethical outcomes increasingly common.

Bronze and Iron Age People Focused on Olive and Grape Crops, Making Wine and Olive Oil a Priority

Learn how Bronze- and Iron-Age people made choices about which crops to prioritize in the Eastern Mediterranean, considering the crops’ resilience, moisture requirements, and profitability through periods of climatic change.

Frequent Volcano Eruptions Can Wipe Out Plant Species, But Also Help Them Evolve and Thrive

Learn more about the volcanic island of Nishinoshima and how its frequent eruptions are helping scientists understand how plant species evolve and thrive.

Aristotle Discovered the World Is Round – One of the First Important Scientific Theories

Who found out the world is round? More than 2,000 years ago, Aristotle decided the whole “flat-Earth” thing didn’t add up.

A Comet Explosion May Have Killed Megafauna in North America 13,000 Years Ago

Learn about the comet impact hypothesis that may explain why North America lost most of its megafauna along with the Clovis culture around 13,000 years ago.

Gaslighters Take Over the Learning Process, Making Their Targets Question Themselves

Learn how gaslighting works, by hijacking what and how we learn in surprising situations.

Fish Pee Like Us to Regulate Their Bodily Fluids – They Also Poop and Fart

Do fish pee? Yes, they do just like humans. And how they pee may help us understand our evolutionary roots.

The Moon Is Moving Farther From Earth Each Year, and Tides Are the Reason

Learn more about tides and tidal bulge, and how they’re contributing to the moon drifting away.

Laser Beams to the Brain Help Us Understand How We Perceive Illusions

Learn how the brain handles certain optical illusions, causing us to perceive shapes that don't actually exist. 

As We Age, Nostalgia Rather Than Trends Controls the Music We Enjoy

Learn about a new study that tracks the lifetime music listening habits of 40,000 people to see how our music tastes change as we get older.

Cats May Eat Grass to Clear Hairballs, Like Unclogging a Drain

Cat eating spiky grass? It may have a strange benefit. Learn more about one of the strangest mysteries in pet behavior, showing how animals use plants in ingenious ways beyond food.

Eye Drops May One Day Replace Reading Glasses, and Could Help Our Vision as we Age

Learn more about the eye drops that are helping patients with presbyopia improve their sight and could one day replace reading glasses.

A Few Days of Fatty Foods Can Disrupt Your Memory, Causing Cognitive Impairment

Learn how a high-fat diet can cause complications with memory in a surprisingly short period of time.

Humans Outlived Neanderthals Likely Because of Differences in Anatomy and Social Skills

Learn more about the differences between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, and how those differences may have helped our ancestors adapt and evolve while Neanderthals went extinct.

Turns Out Some Smells May Be Processed in the Same Brain Area as Taste

We now have an explanation for why we can sometimes perceive taste from smell alone, highlighting how deeply those two senses are wired together.

Catch Shooting Stars During the Rare Chi Cygnid Meteor Shower This Weekend

Learn more about the Chi Cygnid Meteor Shower, a rare shower that seems to grow every five years and will appear this September 2025, peaking between September 13, 2025, and September 15, 2025.

The Great Barrier Reef Experiences Largest Annual Decline in Nearly 40 Years

A coral bleaching event in 2024 has severely hurt the Australian underwater ecosystem.

Uranus's Moons: All 29 Orbit on Their Sides at a Tilt, and Have Mysterious Features

What are Uranus's moons? Learn more about Uranus’s moons and why they aren’t named after Roman characters.

Undisclosed Synthetic Psychedelics Found in Magic Mushroom Edibles Instead of Psilocybin

Commercially available magic mushrooms don’t hold up to their labels, endangering consumers and eroding public trust in psychedelic therapies.