Scientists have stumbled onto a strange quirk of evolution: tadpoles that lose their lungs through evolutionary time never regrow them, even when returning to environments where lungs would be useful.
Oct 28, 2025
Why Friending More People May Be Tearing Us Apart Something strange happened between 2008 and 2010. Americans suddenly had more close friends than ever before, jumping from an average of two confidants to four or five.
Oct 28, 2025
More than six in ten young adults worry that mass shootings will touch their lives somehow.
Oct 28, 2025
If you are shuffling around the house in brief bursts throughout the day, your heart might not be getting the memo.
Oct 28, 2025
Sometimes the most powerful discoveries are the ones scientists walk past for decades.
Oct 28, 2025
Polar bears might seem like solitary hunters, padding across the ice in pursuit of their next seal.
Oct 28, 2025
The ground beneath some of India's largest cities is collapsing, inch by invisible inch, threatening to destabilize thousands of buildings and endanger millions of residents who have no idea the earth is shifting under their feet.
Oct 28, 2025
Four hundred light years away, a planet circles its star so close and so fast that a full year takes less than a day.
Oct 28, 2025
Surgeons performing hip replacements face a grim statistic: nearly half of all postoperative thigh bone fractures happen within the first three months after surgery, often forcing patients back into the operating room.
Oct 28, 2025
Fighter jets and missiles could soon operate at temperatures that would melt today's engines, thanks to a double-layered coating system that protects experimental metal alloys in conditions hot enough to vaporize steel.
Oct 28, 2025
Fashion forecasting has always been part art, part science. Industry experts study runway shows, scroll through social media, and rely on gut instinct to predict what colors, cuts, and styles will dominate stores in six months.
Oct 28, 2025
Pop. Pop. Pop. That satisfying sound of bursting bubble wrap turns out to have scientific value.
Oct 27, 2025
Neuroscientists have long suspected that the way different brain regions connect determines what those regions do.
Oct 27, 2025
Five people with Alzheimer's disease kept sitting in front of LED panels and speakers for two years, receiving an hour of 40-hertz light and sound stimulation each day.
Oct 27, 2025
