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This Big Space Sandwich Broke a Record

A particularly massive and chaotic baby planetary system captured in exquisite detail

December 23, 2025

How All Those Forever Chemicals End Up on Your Plate

Apex predators and people may get the highest doses

December 23, 2025

The Stream Animals Thriving After a Megafire

Oregon fish and amphibians are surprisingly resilient

December 23, 2025

How to Taste More Intensely

A tasting boot camp appeared to boost people’s taste buds

December 23, 2025

The Taste of Prehistory

Three recipes our Neanderthal cousins might have enjoyed

December 23, 2025

Eat Like a Neanderthal

Science-inspired recipes to help you dine like our evolutionary cousins

December 23, 2025

How to Tell if Someone’s Really Listening

The eyes adjust to help us focus as we chat

December 22, 2025

Did Humans or Climate Push the Neanderthals Over the Edge?

A new model of what went down in one of the Neanderthals’ last holdouts

December 22, 2025

Is the Mistletoe That inspires Holiday Smooching A Menace to Trees?

Study shows that parasitic mistletoe doesn’t hurt host trees in Oregon

December 22, 2025

What Does Evolutionary Age Have to Do with a Species’ Extinction?

Younger species of sharks and rays were more likely to die out

December 22, 2025

Why Does My Lettuce Go Bad so Fast?

What happens when nature has a leaky raincoat

December 22, 2025

This Meal Might Bring You to Tears

Experimental psychologist Charles Spence on how our senses shape how we eat

December 22, 2025