Editorial Team
Money rewires your brain, but whether that makes you kinder or crueler depends almost entirely on your choices.
Aug 31, 2026
The carbon down there is Devonian. Some of the water arrived with the ice. The authors went looking for an earlier count of the fungi and could not find one.
Aug 30, 2026
When three teenagers glimpsed what others dismissed as plant disease, they saw a path to solving agriculture's nitrogen problem—and the scientific establishment's skepticism only made them dig deeper.
Aug 30, 2026
A century and a half after extinction, Appalachia's scarred coalfields became the perfect accidental habitat for thousands of roaming elk.
Aug 30, 2026
Nothing has been excavated and no date has been established. The Warsaw summary line says otherwise, and the body of that same announcement does not support it. The survey flew in late July and early August 2026.
Aug 30, 2026
The solar panels meant to harness the desert's sun are inadvertently nurturing one of its rarest plants, raising questions about whether industrial sprawl might sometimes create unexpected refuges.
Aug 30, 2026
A children's fossil hunt on a New Zealand beach uncovered what looked like a boat propeller—until scientists realized they were staring at the remains of a towering penguin that vanished 34 million years ago.
Aug 30, 2026
The illusion of total control is less useful than scientists once thought—what actually matters for your wellbeing is far more achievable.
Aug 30, 2026
A mysterious natural phenomenon in Australia's outback might reveal where to find clean hydrogen—if scientists can prove the connection.
Aug 30, 2026
The steeper the career climb, the harder the fall from professional status—a loss that money alone cannot replace.
Aug 30, 2026
The ancient philosopher famous for hedonism actually preached moderation, discipline, and the pursuit of simple pleasures—a formula modern science now validates.
Aug 30, 2026
In a Y-shaped glass tube run in complete darkness, 44 of 47 wild-caught crickets chose the arm carrying clean air over the arm carrying bat scent, and a purchased standard of a single compound the team had found in the bat's snout secretions did the same job on its own and cut cricket calling in a sprayed grassland.
Aug 29, 2026
Five grades of honey, four respiratory pathogens, and three control solutions built to imitate the honey. The sugar could not match the whole honey, and the methylglyoxal matched it at only one grade, and only against the two staphylococci.
Aug 29, 2026
A wind farm's permit to kill endangered condors has never been used, thanks to GPS tracking and turbines that know when to stop.
Aug 29, 2026
