Chimpanzees Build Friend Groups That Look a Lot Like Ours, Study Finds
A new study shows that chimpanzees and bonobos organize their social lives in layered circles, similar to how humans maintain close friends alongside larger networks of acquaintances.
Pigeons Have a Built-In Magnetic Compass — and Scientists Just Found It in Their Liver
Household Dishwashing Sponges Are Quietly Releasing Microplastics — Here Is What the Science Says
This Solar-Powered Device Pulls Drinking Water From the Ocean — Without Creating Harmful Waste
NASA's Roman Telescope Could Discover 100,000 Exoplanets and Rewrite Planetary Science
A powerful new NASA telescope is preparing to search deep into the Milky Way, hunting for planets in ways no mission has tried before. The results could change everything we think we know about how worlds are born.
Your Brain Is Already Planning Your Social Moves Seconds Ahead of You
New research shows that a wave of brain activity predicts social behavior before any movement happens — and the strength of that signal reveals how social a person naturally is.
Scientists Discover Fire Salamanders Glow and Ooze Fluorescent Slime
A chance experiment with a UV flashlight on a rainy night in Spain revealed that fire salamanders light up with brilliant teal spots and produce glowing goo. Researchers think this hidden ability could be a warning system or even a mating signal.
Tardigrades Turn Themselves Into Glass to Survive Space, Radiation, and Extreme Cold
Tiny eight-legged animals called tardigrades can survive conditions that would destroy almost any other living thing. The secret is a process that basically pauses their biology at the molecular level.
Color Vision Came First: The Surprising Evolutionary Timeline of Nature's Palette
Scientists traced hundreds of millions of years of evolutionary history to answer one of nature's biggest puzzles — and the answer flips what most people would guess.
Meet the Honey Mushroom: The Single Organism That Covers 3.5 Square Miles of Oregon Forest
Beneath the Malheur National Forest in Oregon, one living organism stretches across 2,385 acres — older than many ancient civilizations and larger than any whale or tree ever recorded.
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