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Wild Orbits Prime Planets for Life

Looking for habitable worlds? Check the ones with extreme swings.

August 18, 2025

Making Backpacks for Tiny Fish

A new generation of petite, submersible tracking tags offers a fresh look at the lives of little fishes

August 15, 2025

A Beautiful Accident Etched in Crystal

This microscopic garden was a miraculous failure

August 15, 2025

This Muppet Is a Memory Device

Developing a high-tech, brain-like memory device led to a “cute surprise”

August 15, 2025

I Could Smell Their Breath

Making friends with a wolf pack

August 14, 2025

Stalagmites Offer Clues to Maya Mystery

Chemical fingerprints point to reason for collapse

August 14, 2025

They Came for Climate Science. Then the Storms Came.

The administration’s cuts to climate research are destroying decades of science—and life-saving forecasts

August 13, 2025

Flat Earthers on a Cruise

How evolution wired us to act against our own best interests

August 13, 2025

Is Solving the Plastic Problem a Moral Issue?

The Dalai Lama, the Eastern Orthodox Church, and the Vatican weigh in

August 13, 2025

Can Humanity Stem the Plastic Tide?

Plastic pollution is costing the world $1.5 trillion a year in health-related losses

August 12, 2025

How to Restore a Rembrandt

It takes more than good chemistry

August 12, 2025

First Views of the Perseid Meteor Shower

An early peep for this year’s peak