Learn more about how and why we form social media habits and some ways you can break your own social media habits.

Learn more about the landslide that’s left some homes teetering on the edge of a cliff.

Learn how polar bears in the Arctic’s Barents Sea are maintaining healthy fat reserves despite sea ice loss in a warming climate.

Openly sold in and widely eaten in Asia, Lanmaoa asiatica can cause bizarre, highly specific hallucinations, challenging what we know about fungal toxins.

Learn how physicists recreated the early universe’s primordial soup, known as quark-gluon plasma, and discovered how it responds when particles race through it.

Learn more about what causes acne in humans and how it can sometimes impact animals, too.

Learn how doctors are developing a new platform that uses bacteria and protein design to speed early vaccine testing and production.

Learn about the bright streaks that may represent recent geological activity on Mercury, which has been considered a dead planet in the past.

Learn how geological clues preserved in ancient oceans link repeated volcanic eruptions to Triassic marine extinctions.

Learn about the cult district of Nida, an ancient cult site uncovered under Frankfurt that archaeologists are calling one of the most significant Roman discoveries in Europe.

Learn more about how human voices, whether happy or angry, can impact a dog's balance. 

Learn more about the complicated ways cats communicate and how new research is trying to understand the power behind the meow. 

Learn how archaeologists dated stone tools from central China and what they reveal about when early humans in Asia began using complex tools.

For people who aren’t interested in total abstinence, cannabis-infused beverages may offer a way to reduce alcohol use while keeping familiar rituals intact.

Find out how to watch the upcoming Snow Moon, a full moon that will shine exceptionally bright on Feb. 1, 2026.

Learn more about Inspector Clouseau, the only pink manta ray in the world, and what turned him pink.

Learn how artificial intelligence is helping reinterpret dinosaur footprints, including bird-like tracks that blur the line between dinosaurs and early birds.

Learn how the demand for data centers has skyrocketed, and so has the industry’s need for energy and water.

Learn about the new map that shows how dark matter bends light emitted by galaxies and keeps a tight hold on normal matter in the universe.

​Learn more about the vast metallic cloud that dimmed a sun-like star, puzzling astronomers. 

As cougar and wolf populations recover, clashes between these top predators are inevitable with cougars finding ways to coexist.

Learn more about Point Nemo, a remote area in the Pacific where the ISS will be sent in 2030 or 2031. 

Learn more about the past eruptions at Yellowstone National Park and how each new eruption displaced evidence of the past.

Learn why Alex Honnold can free solo structures like Taipei 101 and how this makes him what neuroscientists call a “super sensation seeker.”