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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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