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Pocket gopher emerging from burrow
Land

How a crew of gophers helped Mount St. Helens bounce back

‘Who would have predicted you could toss a gopher in for a day and see a residual effect 40 years later?’

bats on treadmills
Bats

Why scientists made vampire bats run on treadmills

Forget carb loading, vampire bats just need blood.

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Gear

Get a year of Walmart+ for just $50 (usually $100) before the exclusive Black Friday deals drop

Walmart's paid subscription service gives you access to exclusive deals, and there's an amazing half-off deal on it right now.

a lone coyote in a forest looks into a camera lense
Land

Coyotes appear to be thriving under pressure

Hunting these wily mammals can increase their populations.

Close up of two rhesus monkeys
Science

43 rhesus macaques have escaped from South Carolina’s ‘Monkey Farm’

Police tell locals to 'keep doors and windows securely closed.'

two bodies from pompeii preserved in white plaster
Archaeology

DNA reveals new stories about Pompeii’s victims

‘The scientific data we provide do not always align with common assumptions.’

a sports car on a mountain road
Vehicles

Aston Martin vanquishes the ghosts of bygone spies

The Vanquish has an imposing presence worthy of its V12 powerplant and $429,000 price tag.

Chickpeas, sesame seeds and dark green vegetables, such as kale, arugula and broccoli, are good sources of calcium which can lower your risk of osteoporosis.
Health

How you can lower your risk of osteoporosis

Osteoporosis, the silent disease, can shorten your life−here’s how to prevent fractures and keep bones healthy.

The best star projectors
Home

The best star projectors

A light show billions of years in the making beams into your home.

a pickup truck with three large screens in trunk
Vehicles

5 cool Toyota concept builds that’ll make you want to adventure outside

The carmaker turned ordinary vehicles into imagination-stretching concepts at SEMA.

Three Universal Standard Series drum mics sitting on top of their boxes
Gear

Universal Audio Standard Series microphones review: These may be the only drum mics you’ll ever need

The UA SD-3, SD-5, and SD-7 use cutting-edge modeling tech to offer 15 microphones in three.

The ‘wild’ salmon on your menu might not be wild
Fish

The ‘wild’ salmon on your menu might not be wild

The most popular fish in the US is still being labeled and marketed incorrectly.

"message chatgpt" screenshot
Tech Hacks

Goodbye Google? How to use ChatGPT’s new web search.

Get your answers from the web via AI.

Astrocytes; neuroglial cells, 250X at 35mm.
Biology

‘Swiss army knife’ of the brain: How star-shaped cells reshape our understanding of memory

Astrocyte cells–not just neurons–could be key in processing memories.

brain scans of people watching clips from movies
Biology

MIT maps how the brain experiences movies

'Inception’ and ‘Home Alone’ activate different functional networks in the brain.

Civil War Urns
Archaeology

Remains of 28 Civil War soldiers identified in funeral home storage

The urns were only recently matched to Union soldiers.

four leaf clover good luck
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Science says superstitions can have a very real impact on your life

Plus other weird things we learned this week.

The best pocket microscopes of 2024 on a plain white background.
Outdoor Gear

The best pocket microscopes of 2025

Take a means of investigation with you with these tiny, travelable microscopes.

Dental implants have been used to replace damaged or missing teeth for decades. They generally consist of a metal anchor screwed into the bone, then capped with a prosthetic tooth, commonly made of porcelain.
Health

Dentists are pulling ‘healthy’ and treatable teeth to profit from implants, experts warn

'I should have asked more questions … like, Can they save these teeth?'

Two perfectly articulated skeletons of the sheep-size dinosaur Psittacosaurus, found in China's Yixian Formation. New research suggests they died in burrow collapses, not via volcanism, as previously thought.
Archaeology

Dinosaurs discovered in ‘Chinese Pompeii’ actually died in extremely boring ways

Volcanic calamity? Think again.