This week: Ukulele popularity curves, beats by poultry, singing bridges, and more!

Why do we put seatbacks up for landing? An aviation expert explains.

Video: Something Weird Is Happening With This Bright Red Beach [6:44]

A Professor’s Hunt for the Rarest Chinese Typewriter

Marking Time in a Changing World

Study sheds light on why some people keep self-sabotaging

The First Planned Migration of an Entire Country Is Underway

Scientists just made the 1st antimatter ‘qubit.’ Here’s why it could be a big deal

Scientists Feared the World’s Smallest Snake Had Gone Extinct. They Just Found It Again

Why your childhood snacks are back on shelves

After 15 years of controversy, Science retracts ‘arsenic life’ paper

Gorgeous new images of the cosmos from NASA’s Chandra X-ray telescope

Natural Compound Found in Mushrooms Delays Aging and Extends Lifespan, Study Suggests

A Single Genetic Tweak Stops Mosquitoes from Spreading Malaria

3I/ATLAS is 7 miles wide — the largest interstellar object ever seen

Octopuses Fall for the Rubber Hand Illusion, Just Like Humans, Pointing to a Sense of Body Ownership

Astronomers calculate that the universe will die in 33 billion years — much sooner than we thought

Inside the Days, Hours and Minutes Leading Up to the Hiroshima Bombing

Before These Clouds Form Stars, They Form A Complex Network of Filaments

An Inventor Is Injecting Bleach Into Cancerous Tumors—and Wants to Bring the Treatment to the US

Spider Venom Prevents Tissue Damage After Heart Attack and Stroke

Video: The Aircraft Carrier That Recovered Apollo 11 Astronauts [12:04]

Grand Canyon Fossils Offer Glimpse Into When Complex Life Appeared

Video: Why we still have 12,000 Nukes [47:03]

Fully Paralyzed Man with ALS Speaks to Family with First-of-Its-Kind Technology

James Webb Space Telescope Made a ‘Puzzling’ Discovery on Jupiter’s Moon Europa—These Scientists May Have an Answer

110 years ago today, the passenger steamer SS Eastland capsized disastrously on the Chicago River

An Archer Shot This Bronze Age Human in the Back. 4,000 Years Later, the Arrow Is Still Embedded in the Victim’s Rib Bone

Ancient fossil reveals spiders may have come from the sea

After $380M hack, Clorox sues its “service desk” vendor for simply giving out passwords

Swirling nebula of two dying stars revealed in spectacular detail in new Webb telescope image

Five arms, no heart and a global family: what DNA revealed about the weird deep-sea world of brittle stars

Meteor impact may have triggered massive Grand Canyon landslide 56,000 years ago

Superheated gold withstands ‘entropy catastrophe’: New method challenges established physics

Video: Stonehenge Isn’t A Henge (And Other Things You Didn’t Know) [14:50]

The Cells That Breathe Two Ways

Video: The incredible story of the world’s youngest photojournalist [14:12]

NASA Performs Camera Repair on Spacecraft 370 Million Miles Away

Trio of stripy glaciers merging in ‘Earth’s highest battleground’ are part of a major anomaly scientists don’t fully understand

Silicon Valley AI Startups Are Embracing China’s Controversial ‘996’ Work Schedule

What if Everything We Know About Sacagawea Is Wrong?

Why Fire Island Has Seen an Explosion of Feral Cats

This star escaped a supermassive black hole’s violent grips — then returned for round 2

Lightning kills 320 million trees each year

On this day in 1983 a Boeing 767 ran out of fuel at 41,000 feet

HST captures the Veil Nebula in prismatic color

Four-day workweek makes for healthier, more satisfied workers

New Cyborg Bees Operate Like RC Cars Thanks to Tiny Brain Controllers

Why the Amish have almost no allergies

Humans beat AI at international math contest despite gold-level AI scores

A Naturalist’s Guide to the World’s Most Lethal Plants

Apparently Vera Rubin Captured Images Of 3I/ATLAS Before It Was Even Discovered

Most Mental Illnesses Arise Without Family History

How dupes turned online shopping upside down

Video: The Kid Who Hacked the Pentagon [18:03]

What happens once we spot the asteroid that will hit Earth?

A Child’s Skull That Has Long Confounded Archaeologists Might Be a Human-Neanderthal Hybrid, Study Suggests

Hubble spots interstellar invader Comet 3I/ATLAS for the first time

Why do cats love concrete slabs? A vet explains.

On this day in 1944 a history-making economic conference came to an end