Learn how metals like zinc and manganese reinforce scorpion stingers and claws, and how their placement shapes strength, durability, and hunting behavior across species.
Learn how supercomputers simulate how dolphins create powerful vortices that push them forward and make them some of the fastest swimmers in the animal kingdom.
Learn about the newly opened Detonation Research Test Facility in Texas, a two-football-field-sized lab unlocking the secrets of explosive power.
Learn how Arctic sea ice created natural refuges for bowhead whales during centuries of industrial whaling, shaping which populations are recovering today.
Learn about “papyrus packets” placed on mummies during funerary rituals.
Discover how smell receptors in our noses aren’t randomly arranged but are highly organized, offering new paths toward treating sensory impairment.
Learn about a small rodent-like mammal whose descendants survived the extinction event that killed all non-avian dinosaurs.
Learn about an ichthyosaur found in Germany that is now the youngest fossil found in its genus, and shows a remarkable story of survival.
Learn how researchers used morphology and genetic analysis to reveal the identity of a mysterious golden orb found during a deep-sea expedition.
Learn more about the interstellar traveler, Comet 3I/ATLAS, and what researchers know about its place of origin.
Learn how new research is overturning assumptions about marine ecosystems during the Late Cretaceous.
Learn more about preeclampsia and eclampsia, and the impact these disorders can have on pregnancies.
Discover how iconic eyespots evolved in certain ray and skate species, a defense trait surprisingly common across the animal kingdom.
Learn more about the bizarre geological features found throughout our Solar System.
Learn about Australia’s Twelve Apostles, iconic rock formations that hold millions of years of climate history and have been accurately dated for the first time.
Learn more about Human Ancestor Quickly Evolved Regions (HAQERs), genetic regulatory regions that may have shaped language skill in modern humans and Neanderthals.
Learn how egg retrieval, lab fertilization, and embryo transfer are helping scientists rebuild the northern white rhino population.
Learn how scientists discovered that Methana, a volcano in Greece believed to be dormant, was actually collecting magma for millennia.
Learn how layers of ancient waterproofing and traces of pollen helped researchers trace where the Ilovik–Paržine 1 ship was repaired, and how maritime knowledge moved across the Mediterranean.
Learn how a series of earthquakes on an Atlantic island revealed magma brew merely 1 mile under the surface and how underground faults evaded the eruption.