Seeing dead fruit flies is bad for the health of fruit flies โ and neuroscientists have identified the exact brain cellsย responsible For Drosophila melanogaster, their senses...
Glass: Neither a solid nor a liquid, this common yet complicated material is still surprising scientists Most glass is made by melting down soda ash, limestone...
Are you part robot? A linguistic anthropologist explains how humans are like ChatGPT โ both recycleย language Are we as different as we’d like to believe? Ledi...
If humans went extinct, what would the Earth look like one yearย later? A glimpse of a post-apocalyptic world. Bulgar/E+ via Getty Images Carlton Basmajian, Iowa State...
โFrom Magic Mushrooms to Big Pharma’ โ a college course explores nature’s medicine cabinet and different ways ofย healing People for millennia have used what grows around...
El Niรฑo is back โ that’s good news or bad news, depending on where youย live Warm water along the equator off South America signals an El...
Kakhovka dam breach raises risk for Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant โ receding waters narrow options forย cooling The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant seen across the Dnieper River, which...
Brain tumors are cognitive parasites โย how brain cancer hijacks neural circuits and causes cognitiveย decline Gliomas can form connections with distant areas of the brain, exploiting them...
Nearly 20% of the cultural differences between societies boil down to ecological factors โ newย research How much of a culture could be due to things like...
Scientists’ political donations reflect polarization in academia โ with implications for the public’s trust inย science Under 10% of political donations from academic scholars go to Republican...