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.

Slingshot Tongues of Chameleons and Salamanders Could Transform Tech in Medicine and Space

Learn more about the biological mechanism behind the tongue movement of chameleons and salamanders, which could contribute to critical technological breakthroughs.

Potential Biosignatures on Mars May Reflect Ancient Life in Mineral-Rich Rocks

Learn about the discovery of potential biosignatures within sedimentary rocks on Mars, which may represent signs of ancient microbial life. 

What Happened to the Aztec Empire? Lost Artifacts Help Rejuvenate Its Past

Learn more about the tragic fall of the Aztec Empire and how found artifacts are helping to restore pieces of the past.

Asteroid Ryugu Was Once Packed with Water, Offering Clues on Earth's Habitability

Learn how fragments from asteroid Ryugu provide evidence of water flowing within asteroids formed in the early Solar System. 

A 242-Million-Year-Old Fossil Has Drastically Altered the Story of Lizard Evolution

Learn how an ancient lizard ancestor’s unique physical characteristics have shocked paleontologists.

At Almost 500 Feet Below the Water, Experts Heard the Sounds of the Elusive Beaked Whale

Learn more about the techniques a research team used to record the songs of the elusive beaked whale in Brazil. 

Sharks Began Roaming the Oceans 400 Million Years Ago as Deep-Sea Bottom-Dwellers

Discover how apex predators like great whites started as slow, bottom-dwelling fish in ancient oceans, and how climate change shaped their rise.

JWST Helps Examine Atmosphere of Exoplanet 40 Light Years Away and in the Goldilocks Zone

Learn more about the planet that's 40 light-years away and resides within a Goldilocks Zone.  

Retreating Ice Has Revealed a New Island in Alaska

Learn more about the new island that's resurfaced in an Alaskan lake as glaciers recede. 

Avoiding Armageddon: Experts Must Hit a Sweet Spot to Redirect an Asteroid

Learn more about the processes behind diverting asteroids and how experts must ensure we don't inadvertently knock them back into a collision course.