Install
The latest science news. Publishing independent, fact-checked reporting on health, space, nature, technology, and the environment.
- 2,760articles · 365d
- 59+ min agolatest article
- Sep 13, 2025earliest in window
- 94%with images
- 290avg words
- Science & Technology 1,823
- Science & Nature 1,417
- Medical 1,207
- Health & Wellness 1,127
- STEM 892
- Health 716
- Pets & Animals 204
- Environment 122
Please confirm you are human
This browser or connection looks automated. Press and continuously hold the control for 3 seconds to enable Google-hosted web results and, when separately allowed, AI-assisted answers.
A successful check enables 100 search requests. Interactive access does not authorize scraping, systematic collection, or reuse of search output.
News
Ancient DNA Reveals The 'American Cheetah' Wasn't a Cheetah at All
3+ day, 9+ hour ago (441+ words) The Ice Age movies get one major thing right: Climate shifts and glaciation caused profound animal migrations and evolutionary adaptations – though it's uncertain if any of them resulted from an acorn-burying saber-toothed squirrel splitting a continent. During the Pleistocene epoch,…...
Haunting Encounter With Rare Bigfin Squid Caught 2 Miles Under The Waves
1+ week, 4+ day ago (663+ words) In the liminal darkness of the water column deep under the sea, an entire ecosystem thrives....
What Do You See? This Week's Monday Microscope Mystery
1+ week, 6+ day ago (414+ words) Familiar things can look very strange when viewed under a microscope – which is why each week we bring you a fresh microscope mystery to put your detective skills to the test. This week's mystery looks almost cosmic – a scatter of…...
This Week in Science: Mosquito Magnets, Bonus Benefits of GLP-1s, And More
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (366+ words) This Week in Science: Staring at the Sun, unraveling the 'farm effect', and much more! First up: You're not imagining it – it turns out that some people really do attract more mosquitoes than others....
A Simple Lighting Swap Could Save Millions of Insects
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (827+ words) Forty percent of the world's insect species are at risk of extinction in the coming decades, mainly because of habitat loss, pollution, pathogens, introduced species, and climate change. Artificial light at night is included among those stressors, because it disrupts…...
A Cockroach 'Collective Memory' Emerges From Their Social Networks, Study Suggests
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (678+ words) The collective memory of the tribe can be crucial to survival. For many animals, safety lies in numbers – and knowledge perseveres across generations, passing on migration routes, hunting techniques, or safe refuges through social learning. But not all collective memories…...
Cockroaches Have Been Hiding a DNA Secret For Millions of Years
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (305+ words) Cockroaches tend to be thought of as the creatures that keep on living through anything, in part due to their DNA – which can code for all kinds of useful survival tricks, from neutralizing toxins to limb regeneration....
Your Cat May Not Ease Stress The Way You Think, Study Finds
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (664+ words) You might understandably think that pets always offer emotional support to their owners, but solid scientific evidence for this is surprisingly limited. Despite the general assumption that pets are good for us, there are a lot of conflicting findings out…...
Fossil Kept in a Museum For Decades Turns Out to Be a Fearsome New Predator
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (842+ words) A prehistoric predator to rival the most fearsome giant of them all has just been discovered lurking half-forgotten in a museum collection. No name is associated with Cretaceous terror as much as Tyrannosaurus rex; now, paleontologists have found a mosasaur…...
De-Extinction Company Says It's Hatched Chicks From Artificial Eggshells
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (234+ words) NEW YORK (AP) – A biotech company that aims to resurrect lost creatures said Tuesday it has hatched live chicks in an artificial environment – a development that was met with mixed reviews from scientists and critics of its de-extinction mission....