Unusually Small Dinosaur Fossil Helps Fill a 70-Million-Year Gap in Ornithopod Evolution

Learn how tiny fossils from Spain led to the discovery of Foskeia and a new chapter in dinosaur evolution.

A Small Genetic Shift May Have Launched Vertebrate Evolution

Learn how increased protein diversity in signaling genes may have helped drive the shift from invertebrates to vertebrates, reshaping how animals with a spine evolved.

Planets With Two Suns Are Almost Impossible To Find — General Relativity May Be Why

Learn why only 14 out of over 6,000 exoplanets orbit two stars, and how Einstein’s general theory of relativity may be to blame.

European Wildcats Are Slowly Making a Comeback in the Forests of Central Europe

Learn more about European wildcats — a species almost thought to be extinct that’s making a bit of a comeback.

What is the Nipah Virus and Should We Be Concerned?

Two patients have been hospitalized in India — learn more about the zoonotic disease responsible.

From Cucumber Salad to Dubai Chocolate — How TikTok Shapes Food Choices

Learn how the social media platform is impacting users’ dietary preferences.

Alzheimer’s-Related Memory Concerns Linked to Glitches in the Brain’s Replay Process

Learn how the brain’s replay system helps us consolidate memories — and what goes wrong when Alzheimer’s disease interferes with the process.

5 Diseases With Surprising Animal Reservoirs — And How They Can Affect Humans

Learn more about the diseases that live in certain animals and if they can be transferred to humans. 

Asteroid 2024 YR4’s Possible 2032 Moon Impact — What the Aftermath Could Look Like

Learn about 2024 YR4, the asteroid with a 4 percent chance of hitting the Moon in 2032, and the possible timeline of effects that could follow.

Fire-Loving Fungi Have Learned to Eat Charcoal — A Useful Skill for Dealing With Industrial Waste

Learn more about how exploring the genes of fungi thriving on charcoal could help revive ecosystems after severe fires and industrial pollution.

Brown Bears Look Alike to the Human Eye — An AI Program Is Helping to Observe Their Differences

Learn about the AI program that's recognizing individual brown bears in Alaska by their faces and poses. 

430,000-Year-Old Discovery Reveals Earliest-Known Evidence of Humans Using Wooden Tools

Learn how two wooden tools discovered in Greece mark the earliest known evidence of humans shaping wood, moving the timeline back roughly 40,000 years.

The Atlantic Ocean May Have Its Own Grand Canyon — and It Might Be Even Bigger

Learn more about how Earth’s crust unzipped beneath the Atlantic Ocean, creating a giant underwater canyon.

Jurassic Predators Feasted on Baby Long-Necked Dinosaurs 150 Million Years Ago

Learn how fossils from Colorado’s Morrison Formation helped researchers reconstruct a Late Jurassic food web and uncover the role of young sauropods.

Social Media Habits Are Easy to Form — And Easier to Break Than You Might Think

Learn more about how and why we form social media habits and some ways you can break your own social media habits.

Landslide Causes 1,500 Residents to Evacuate Small Sicilian Town

Learn more about the landslide that’s left some homes teetering on the edge of a cliff.

Adult Polar Bears in Svalbard Are Gaining Fat Even as Arctic Sea Ice Shrinks

Learn how polar bears in the Arctic’s Barents Sea are maintaining healthy fat reserves despite sea ice loss in a warming climate.

This Popular Culinary Mushroom Turns Meals into Visions, Making People See “Little Elves”

Openly sold in and widely eaten in Asia, Lanmaoa asiatica can cause bizarre, highly specific hallucinations, challenging what we know about fungal toxins.

First Direct Evidence Suggests the Universe’s Primordial Soup Behaved Like a Liquid

Learn how physicists recreated the early universe’s primordial soup, known as quark-gluon plasma, and discovered how it responds when particles race through it.

Why Do Humans Get Acne, and Is it Unique to Us? Here’s What to Know

Learn more about what causes acne in humans and how it can sometimes impact animals, too.