Brain & Behavior
Closeness to cats lifts mood more than years of living together
Quality of time with your cat matters far more than how long you've owned it, according to new data on feline companionship.
Oct 24, 2026
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Life
Hurricane Andrew unleashed an invasive python population that now numbers in the tens of thousands
A hurricane, eight pythons, and an ecological catastrophe—but the origin story everyone tells about Florida's snake invasion might not be true.
Oct 24, 2026
Earth & Environment
Winter bee clusters suffer most on the outside, not the center
A century of beekeeping wisdom may have misidentified which bees suffer most when winter comes—and blamed the wrong culprit for forcing them to huddle.
Sep 25, 2026
Life
Golden jackals are naturally spreading from the Balkans deep into Western Europe
A predator extinct across Europe for centuries is quietly reclaiming its old territory, filling an ecological void humans left behind.
Sep 24, 2026
Earth & Environment
France's dam demolition freed Atlantic salmon to spawn upstream for first time in decades
France's radical bet on removing dams—once considered heresy—has turned a river back into one of Europe's most vital salmon highways.
Sep 24, 2026
Earth & Environment
Cocoa prices nearly tripled as West African drought upended the chocolate supply chain
When two countries control the world's chocolate supply, a bad monsoon becomes a grocery store crisis.
Sep 23, 2026
Life
Twenty-nine reindeer were put on a remote Bering Sea island in 1944, reached over 6,000 by 1963, and were down to 42 three years later
A textbook ecological collapse story omits the inconvenient detail that transformed it from cautionary tale into something far messier.
Sep 19, 2026
Earth & Environment
Carp in rice paddies feed the crop while controlling pests for 1,200 years
A millennium-old trick is outperforming modern agriculture: letting fish do the weeding, pest control, and fertilizing while you harvest two crops instead of one.
Sep 19, 2026
Earth & Environment
Two cyclones triggered a locust plague that reached Kenya at its worst level in 70 years
A freak weather pattern turned Arabia's Empty Quarter into a breeding ground, helping unleash a locust crisis that devastated crops across Africa and Asia.
Sep 18, 2026
Earth & Environment
Beethoven's Für Elise transformed Taiwan's recycling rate from 5 to 50 percent
A country turned its trash problem into a social ritual, proving that human interaction matters more than convenience.
Sep 18, 2026
Life
To count the tigers hiding in India's forests, researchers set out tens of thousands of hidden cameras and waited, and out of nearly 35…
A vast camera trap survey reveals how India's fate will determine whether tigers survive the next century—or vanish entirely.
Sep 2, 2026
Life
A single female elephant seal was fitted with a depth logger and sent back to sea, and it turned out she was diving more than a mile…
A creature built for extremes reveals the ocean's most inhospitable depths through the eyes of a single tagged female, rewriting what we thought possible for a marine mammal's body and mind.
Sep 1, 2026
Life
Crows can memorise the face of a person who wronged them, hold the grudge for as long as 17 years, and teach it to their own chicks and…
A grudge held by a bird can outlast a human marriage—and spread through an entire flock like generational trauma.
Aug 26, 2026
Earth & Environment
When Hunga Tonga erupted underwater in 2022, it fired so much water vapour into the upper atmosphere that it measurably increased the total…
Every so often, the planet does something that atmospheric scientists have been theorising about for decades but have never quite seen happen.
Aug 25, 2026