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Ghostly Swamp Lightning Explained

The tiny sparks behind spooky myths might have also started life on Earth

September 29, 2025

The Extreme Animals in Our Backyards

Alex Riley’s three greatest revelations while writing Super Natural

September 29, 2025

A Pediatrician’s Lament

How the blustery rhetoric of Trump and Kennedy makes life harder for local physicians

September 26, 2025

Earth’s Largest Mirror Shattered by Science

The Bolivian salt flat long touted as a massive looking glass loses some of its shine

September 26, 2025

Butterfly Wings Inspire Barrier-Breaking Nanotech

Mimicking the charismatic insect’s trick for flashing iridescent blue allows devices to grow ever smaller

September 26, 2025

How AI Is Helping Archaeologists Make Discoveries

New clues about ancient civilizations are being unearthed from the data

September 26, 2025

 A Nano-sized Art Gallery

Vote on your favorite miniature art pieces and discover their link to futuristic research

September 25, 2025

The Silent Language of Birds

These songbirds swap chirps for blinks when nature drowns them out

September 25, 2025

Modeling the Deep

An ambitious mission seeks to map the flow of crucial chemicals through marine food webs in far-flung oceanic gyres

September 25, 2025

Extraterrestrials are People, Too

Should we grant legal rights to extraterrestrial lifeforms before we find them?

September 24, 2025

Is Life a Form of Computation?

Alan Turing and John von Neumann saw it early: the logic of life and the logic of code may be one and the same.

September 24, 2025

New Eyes on Space Weather

From threats of solar storms to cosmic radiation, new efforts to warn Earthlings are launching

September 23, 2025