How do eggs get Salmonella? This bacteria poses a real threat to many eggs, but can easily be killed by cooking at a high heat. 

Learn how researchers used physics, 3D Models, ropes, and a bit of elbow grease to help walk Easter Island’s Moai into Place.

Learn more about Xiphodracon goldencapensis, a long-snouted, sharp-toothed marine reptile that may serve as the missing link in the ichthyosaur lineage.

Learn more about how the chikungunya virus spreads and what can be done to stop outbreaks.

Learn more about how a few dogs show behaviors toward their toys that mirror human addictions, offering clues to how compulsion develops across species.

Learn more about the meteor showers in the month of October 2025, the Draconids and Orinids are a subtle and showy pair that you may have a chance to catch this week and a little less than two weeks from today.

Learn about the chemical reaction that makes you cry while chopping onions, a sensation that can be relieved with a certain cutting technique.

A newly discovered species, Damarchus inazuma, displays a rare split-sex trait known as gynandromorphism and takes its name from a shape-shifting anime character.

Learn how many stars there are in the Milky Way, and how astronomers count them.

Learn more about the Chiribaya Shepherd, a faithful and honored companion to the Pre-Incan Chiribaya people.

Meet the Zimapán man, a mummy from the Mesoamerican Otopame culture, whose intestines bustled with bacteria, around a millennium ago.

Learn how astronomers spotted 2025 TF, an asteroid that passed just 266 miles over Antarctica in early October 2025. 

Learn about a new world’s first: a South African rock hyrax that scooted its way into the fossil record and is highlighting the importance of paleoichnology.

Learn more about where Jamestown colonists first found donkeys on their voyage to the Americas. Hint, they didn’t come from England.

Researchers uncover signs of a written Uto-Aztecan language in Teotihuacan’s murals, linking the ancient city’s people to the Aztecs. Discover what they found.

Learn about the history of Karnak, an ancient Egyptian temple complex that was likely positioned on an island as a way to appease the gods.

Learn more about the bearded vulture, which historically accumulated human-made materials such as strings, baskets, and bolts in the cliffs of southern Spain.

Learn how ancient teeth have revealed new insights about the earliest farming communities, including how they treated outsiders.  

Learn more about how human cycles, such as sleep and the menstrual cycle, may have once been in sync with the lunar cycle. However, artificial light may now be making these cycles shorter and impacting our health.

Merging biophysics with knowledge of how the brain handles waste led to an impressive 50 percent reduction of amyloid beta in mice brains and restoration of cognitive function.

Learn more about the Will-o’-the-Wisp and how this mysterious phenomenon, which has inspired faerie folklore, may actually be bursts of methane gas.

Learn the surprising reasons why Earth has grown darker over the last 20 years, which include volcanoes, clouds, and cleaner air.

Praised as “the strongest polar ship of its time,” the Endurance revealed major structural flaws that may explain why it never reached its final destination.

Get to know Breugnathair elgolensis, a half snake, half lizard that inhabited Jurassic-era Scotland.