A raptor in the snow and a helicopter escape

AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They’re Free of AI Slop

A Texan Risked Everything to Defend Ukraine. So Did His Father.

Why do dogs kick their back legs after pooping and peeing?

The Organisms That Make Earth’s Harshest Places Home

For 1,000 years, a cult worshipped the hero of the Odyssey

‘She was almost a Batman figure’: Mexico’s avenging Mother Courage

A Star Orbiting Our Galaxy’s Supermassive Black Hole Tests the Limits of Relativity

The condition that causes people to get lost in their own home

Did Viking 1 find life on Mars 50 years ago? Here’s why the debate continues

Study: Inhaling high-dose CO2 clears Alzheimer’s proteins from the brain

Why nature has never evolved a perfect weapon for any species

‘Most people don’t know we’ve set up a doomsday system’: physicist Laura Grego on satellites, nuclear weapons and the battle for our skies

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New York sculptor spent $100,000 to make a Charlie Kirk statue no one wants to buy

Phase 2 trials begin for the world’s first tooth regeneration treatment

What Happened to the Bones of the American Bison?

Koala nicknamed ‘teddy bear’ receives first chlamydia vaccine implant

Most Forest Fires in Canada Are Simply Impossible to Put Out

Are we underestimating the threat of solar storms? A ‘once-in-a-thousand-year’ disaster is worth considering, scientists say

How LEDs Are Making Light Pollution Worse

James Webb Space Telescope discovers how black holes feed themselves

Food delivery rider wins China’s top literary prize

Nature’s cleanup crew: Stunning photos show vultures in a different light

Martin Picard’s Mitochondrial Theory of Mind

Scientists Finally Learned How a Tiny Mouse Survives Near the Andes Death Zone at 7,000 Meters

Endometriosis Can Be Diagnosed Using a Rapid Saliva Test in ‘Game-Changing’ Development

On this day in 1917 the residents of Clipperton Island took matters into their own hands

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Narcissistic leaders more likely to oppose remote work, new research suggests

NASA’s Psyche Mission Delivers Mars Flyby Data, Time-lapse Video

Buckingham Palace’s Royal Picture Gallery Revives the Salon-Style Hang, Doubling the Number of Masterpieces on View

Seagulls Are Getting ‘Drunk’ on Flying Ants and Stumbling Into Traffic

The Accidental Cartel Queen

New, Orange-Lipped Monkey Discovered in Africa

How to avoid tick bites, and what to do if one starts feasting on you

New process turns mixed plastic waste directly into hydrogen fuel without sorting

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Getting a bit nervous as donations slow at 35%. Here is an unrelated photo.

Ode to the Atacama Desert

‘Phantom Twist’: US team designs drone that spins to achieve near-invisibility

On this day in 1962 the pint-size Davy Crockett atomic weapon system was tested in the Nevada desert

New Jersey Couple Aids Meteorite Discovery After it Crashes Through Their Roof

The Pfizer Building is Stable. What Happens Now?

What the Middle Ages can teach us about preventing burnout

America’s Forgotten Tornado Apocalypse Left 500 Dead. Scientists Say It Could Happen Again.

Chinese scientists have bad news on having babies in space. But there is a silver lining

Archaeologist Turns Over a Stone and Finds a Roman Guardian Hidden Near Hadrian’s Wall for 1,600 Years

Mapping how the U.S. forcibly took Indigenous lands

Generative AI Is an Engineering Disaster

Earth-like exoplanet found to have an atmosphere

Elephants May Hear Ground Vibrations Through Their Bones, Helping Them to Communicate Over 6 Miles

Astronomers find nearby planets to be small, strange, and utterly uninhabitable

A New Clue From the Night MH370 Vanished May Radically Change the Search for the Missing Plane

Fascinating Japanese Retro Futurism From the 1960s

Asteroid with unexplained orbital shift turns out to be a ‘dark comet’

Brain Scans Reveal a Network Origin Point for Schizophrenia

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Inside America’s Shoplifting Lab

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