The mountain West has always made a sport of humbling forecasters, its snowpack shifting with every canyon kink and wind-scoured ridge, its storms producing featherlight powder one day and soggy concrete the next.
Nov 23, 2025
In the clouded mountain forests of Central and South America, some of the fiercest duels are fought with beaks that double as spears.
Nov 23, 2025
Attacks on cargo ships in a narrow Middle Eastern strait have ended up changing the brightness of clouds half a world away.
Nov 23, 2025
The problem might not be brain damage after all. New research tracking the same group of Navy Seabees over two decades suggests that Gulf War illness stems from a persistent energy crisis inside brain cells rather than irreversible neural destruction.
Nov 22, 2025
The biological defenses that protect the brain from toxins also lock out most cancer drugs, making glioblastoma one of the hardest tumors to treat.
Nov 22, 2025
Four and a half billion years ago, a neighboring world slammed into the young Earth and changed everything.
Nov 21, 2025
Creativity has never been a numbers game, and a new Australian analysis offers a stark reminder of just how far generative AI sits from human imagination.
Nov 21, 2025
Deep in the African night, it turns out that lions are not just roaring, they are speaking in two different roaring voices that computers can now tell apart with remarkable precision.
Nov 21, 2025
At mealtimes, rabbit sized Australian bettongs turn into nut cracking powerhouses that can splinter seeds tougher than popcorn kernels.
Nov 21, 2025
In mice already losing memories to Alzheimer’s, scientists have uncovered a way to turn the brain’s star shaped support cells into sweeping cleaners that slow cognitive decline.
Nov 21, 2025
A familiar dietary amino acid is quietly doing something radical in the lab, easing some of the core brain changes that define Alzheimer’s disease.
Nov 21, 2025
When the air around them turns desert dry, Madagascar hissing cockroaches do something surprisingly tender: they press their bodies together and ride out the stress as a crowd.
Nov 21, 2025
Canadian engineers have built a device that captures airborne disease particles before they circulate through meeting rooms, clinics, and offices.
Nov 21, 2025
Far beneath our feet, two gigantic blobs of strange rock and splashes of molten material near Earth’s core may help explain why this planet, and not its rocky neighbors, ended up with oceans, a breathable atmosphere, and life.
Nov 20, 2025
