Overloaded leafcutter ants develop “blind spots” that slow their movement - showing how nature’s most efficient workers hit sensory limits.

Easter Island’s moai statues weren’t dragged - they walked. Physics and experiments uncover how ancient islanders made stone giants move.

Training service dogs helped female veterans slow biological aging and ease PTSD symptoms, linking compassion to cellular health.

Snow leopards across Asia share nearly identical genes, making them vulnerable to a rapidly warming planet.

Genes influence when autism becomes visible, revealing early and late developmental patterns across childhood.

Gulf of Alaska ocean heatwaves reshaped plankton and slowed the water’s carbon pump, trapping carbon near the surface instead of the deep sea.

A tiny gold coin from about 2,200 years ago just turned up in Jerusalem, and it is not just pocket change. The quarter sized piece shows Queen Berenice II of Egypt The coin’s design hints at a city far richer and more connected in the third century BCE than many people thought possible – a

World Octopus Day reveals how intelligent, adaptable, and important octopuses are to our planet’s oceans today.

A new study shows farming and livestock reshaped global mammal communities, collapsing natural boundaries after the last Ice Age.

For people in their 90s, more education is linked to stronger cognitive skills and had a lower risk of dementia.

Scientists found that sugar-sweetened and diet sodas alike increase metabolic liver disease risk, challenging the “diet drink” safety myth.

Children naturally discover computer sorting algorithms through play without any instruction, study finds surprisingly.

We’ve all been told that many short study sessions beat one long, all-night “cramming” marathon. That basic idea – called the signal spacing effect – shows up again and again in memory research. Here’s the twist: signs of this memory spacing effect don’t stop at the neurons in the brain. A surprising lab study reveals

A new stick insect from the Wet Tropics of Far North Queensland has stepped into the spotlight with unusual heft and length. The female measures about 15.75 inches and weighs roughly 1.55 ounces. Scientists formally described the species, named Acrophylla alta, and noted that its distinctive eggs helped clinch the identification. Their peer reviewed paper

Seddin’s towering burial mounds have long looked important, but looks alone cannot tell you who is lying inside. New evidence says many of the people interred there grew up far from northern Germany during the Late Bronze Age. A new study examined cremated remains from five burial sites around Seddin and compared their chemistry with

Anxiety has moved to the top of the list of reasons why people enroll in medical cannabis programs. The shift is forcing a hard look at what the science actually shows and what the policy change might signal to patients. The state of Pennsylvania added anxiety disorders and Tourette syndrome to its list of qualifying

A breakthrough study reveals when oxygen flips from stable to reactive, connecting the chemistry of life with clean-energy innovation.

A new analysis of 30,059 adults from the UK Biobank links what people eat to their risk of depression, anxiety, and addiction related diagnoses, and the study used blood chemistry to probe how that link might work.  Ultra-processed foods (UPF) are industrial formulations with little intact whole-food content, organized by the NOVA classification into the

The early universe was already warm before reionization, revealing that the first stars did not flicker on in an icy cosmos.

Scientists think Uranus’s moon Ariel once had a hidden ocean beneath its icy shell. The moon’s orbit stretched enough to crack the surface.

Modern farming habits boosting yields today may quietly strip soils of their resilience, threatening long-term fertility and food security.

RSV has been a stubborn winter problem for infants. Hospitals know the rhythm all too well, and families do too. Things shifted last season. Hospitalizations among infants fell, and the timing links that change to new protection for pregnant patients and babies. Infant RSV cases are rising Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), spreads easily and can

Health officials have confirmed the first travel-linked cases of Oropouche virus in the United Kingdom this year. The warning asks anyone who returns from affected regions and develops a sudden fever, headache, or intense body aches to contact a clinician quickly. Oropouche is sometimes called sloth fever because the virus circulates in sloths in parts

As Africa’s population climbs toward 2.5 billion, its farms face a big challenge: produce more food without raising emissions.

A new peer-reviewed study finds that early planet formations were assembled from fragments of earlier bodies within the Solar System.