Science
A Parkinson's-linked protein can spread from cell to cell, and Yale researchers found the two-protein complex that appears to help it get…
Jul 13, 2026
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Life
We tend to think of lions as Africa’s ultimate killers, but a lone lion hunting in daylight succeeds in only about one chase in five, while…
Jul 13, 2026
Technology
Methuselah is among the oldest confirmed living non-clonal trees, with rings dating to roughly 2833 BC
Jul 13, 2026
Social Sciences
The Basque language of the Pyrenees has no known living relative anywhere on Earth
Jul 13, 2026
Earth & Environment
We tend to imagine the deep ocean as a largely empty void, but after nearly seventy years of exploration, humans have visually observed…
Jul 13, 2026
Earth & Environment
The Late Ordovician extinction 443 million years ago struck in two pulses driven by opposite climate extremes
Jul 13, 2026
Earth & Environment
A high-altitude Pyrenees cave records recurrent use from the early fifth millennium BC, including 23 hearths and probably malachite…
Jul 13, 2026
Earth & Environment
About 60 wild Wollemi pines survive in closely guarded canyon sites after the species was rediscovered in 1994
Jul 13, 2026
Brain & Behavior
In the late 1960s, Walter Mischel and his colleagues at Stanford offered preschoolers a choice between one treat immediately or a larger…
Jul 13, 2026
Brain & Behavior
In 2023, roughly one in four American adults reported eating every meal alone on the previous day
Jul 13, 2026
Space
A spacecraft called DART was deliberately crashed into an asteroid in 2022 to test whether humanity could deflect one, and it worked
Jul 13, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Marine biologist Wallace J. Nichols spent roughly a decade interviewing surfers, sailors, swimmers, scientists and others about their…
Jul 13, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Small studies have found lower short-term stress markers after forest walks, but lasting effects remain uncertain
Jul 12, 2026
Earth & Environment
Roughly five and a half million years ago the Mediterranean dried up almost entirely, and when the Atlantic finally broke back through at…
Jul 12, 2026