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Meet the folks designing the future of mouse mazes
Animals

Meet the folks designing the future of mouse mazes

What makes a maze, anyway?

Don’t try to fix your frayed cable—prevent the damage in the first place
Tech Hacks

Don’t try to fix your frayed cable—prevent the damage in the first place

Worn-out chargers endanger you and your device.

Can we really ever know if animals are happy?
Pets

Can we really ever know if animals are happy?

Tail wags, rat giggles, and horse snorts.

Turning water into oxygen in zero gravity could mean easier trips to Mars
NASA

Turning water into oxygen in zero gravity could mean easier trips to Mars

A real breath of fresh air.

To combat extreme heat, cover your roof in hungry, sweaty plants
Environment

To combat extreme heat, cover your roof in hungry, sweaty plants

Green roofs and white paints are a heat-buster's best friends.

How to leave the sand behind on your next beach trip
Life Skills

How to leave the sand behind on your next beach trip

Clean up sneaky grains of silica.

hunter gatherer bow arrow
Nutrition

Ancient hunter-gatherers didn’t all eat paleo

Ötzi is a good reminder that there's no one ancient, natural diet for us to return to.

Capturing this incredible star cluster required lasers and a bendable mirror
Space

Capturing this incredible star cluster required lasers and a bendable mirror

The Very Large Telescope got new adaptive optics technology.

Coral reef ecosystem.
Ocean

Coral reefs face yet another threat: island rats depleting their poop supply

Invading rodents are mucking up the food chain.

What Kennedy’s Supreme Court departure means for the environment
Environment

What Kennedy’s Supreme Court departure means for the environment

New cases, shifting strategies, and the uncertainty of a reshuffled bench

We may finally know where the ‘ghost particles’ that surround us come from
Physics

We may finally know where the ‘ghost particles’ that surround us come from

Neutrinos, meet IceCube.

Indigo, vermillion, and other ancient colors that have decorated the world for millennia
Science

Indigo, vermillion, and other ancient colors that have decorated the world for millennia

Humans have been searching for newer, better colors since, well, forever.

Pesticides are making bees dumber
Bees

Pesticides are making bees dumber

Even if they survive, they might not thrive.

Dogs spread across the Americas alongside humans. Then they got eaten.
Evolution

Dogs spread across the Americas alongside humans. Then they got eaten.

Little genetic legacy remains from these pups.

Quantum Radar China
Military

China’s latest quantum radar could help detect stealth planes, missiles

Next Stop Stratosphere

rollercoaster emotions
Psychology

Rollercoasters are stressful and that’s why you like them

The psychology behind your love of twists and turns.

This newly discovered wasp has a horrifying stinger—but what it uses it for is even worse
Insects

This newly discovered wasp has a horrifying stinger—but what it uses it for is even worse

That's some big stinger energy.

What to know about breastfeeding
Health

What to know about breastfeeding

There's a lot of misinformation out there, so we cut right to the science.

Disney robot Stuntronics
Self Driving

Disney is turning to robots to pull off dangerous aerial feats

'Stickman' was just the start.

NASA’s most prolific planet-hunting telescope is taking a nap
Exoplanets

NASA’s most prolific planet-hunting telescope is taking a nap

But the end is fast approaching.