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Banana butterfly on person's brown ponytail at butterfly house in Frankfurt, Germany

If you have a serious fear of bugs, a butterfly house might change your tune

By Sara Kiley Watson

The Craiyon interface, showing a courtroom sketch of a sperm whale vs. a giant squid

5 ways to get Craiyon, formerly Dall-E mini, to bend to your will

By John Kennedy

Faafafine individual at Auckland, New Zealand pride parade

Sex and gender binaries don’t tell the entire story of life

By Rachel Feltman

First of a kind study finds that after five years, trans children stand firm in their identities.

First-of-a-kind study shows encouraging data for trans kids who socially transition

a female astronaut on the international space station takes a picture of section of the station with equipment

International Space Station

What an extraterrestrial archaeological dig could tell us about space culture

By Tatyana Woodall

Wooden lacquer-painted tray by Mexican artist José Manuel de la Cerda depicting a war scene at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Classic Mexican art stood the test of time with the help of this secret ingredient

By Maggie Galloway

Museum collections tag for Indigenous seeds from the University of Michigan

Indigenous farmers are ‘rematriating’ centuries-old seeds to plant a movement

By Kalen Goodluck

Light brown tarantula with white discharge around mouth being attacked by a nematode worm on a bacteria backsplash

What do you call a tiny tarantula killer? Jeff Daniels.

By Purbita Saha

A bronze helmet shown from the front and the side. It has curving horns coming out of the sides of the head, and a birdlike face.

Horned helmets came from Bronze Age artists, not Vikings

By Philip Kiefer

a bushel of lychee, a red, prickly skinned spherical fruit with white, glossy edible flesh surrounding a dark oval shaped seed. two of the lychees' skin is peeled to reveal the white flesh

Good news for lychee lovers: There may be a way to grow the fruits year-round

Slats of an old shipwreck in Lake Michigan seen from the air

Dead ships find solace under the treacherous surface of the Great Lakes

By Margo Milanowski

Snapping your fingers is a move worthy of a professional athlete

Snapping your fingers is a move worthy of a professional athlete

By Elana Spivack

Dune 2021 movie actors looking across the desert of Arrakis

Science Fiction

Could humans survive on Dune’s Arrakis?

By Farnsworth et al./The Conversation

Renaming the company won’t fix Facebook’s image problem

Renaming the company won’t fix Facebook’s image problem

How the stunt crew in ‘No Time to Die’ pulled off the film’s astounding motorcycle jump

How the stunt crew in ‘No Time to Die’ pulled off the film’s astounding motorcycle jump

Soy sauce, cilantro, broth, and other umami foods on a pink and purple background

What is umami? No, really.

By Elana Spivack

a sulfur-crested cockatoo perched on a wall

Australian cockatoos are teaching each other to open trash cans

By Philip Kiefer

Orange jessamine flowers

Get to know the plant that showed up in the National Spelling Bee finals

By Purbita Saha

White Olympics five-ring flag flying during the 1988 summer games in Seoul

Why are people obsessed with the Olympics?

The real Jurassic Park may have been in the Arctic

The real Jurassic Park may have been in the Arctic

Chinese banyan bonsai tree on bright yellow

The beauty and science of growing bonsai

By Stan Horaczek

the start of the cooperative board game, Pandemic

Two-player games that won’t turn you and your friend into enemies

By Harry Guinness

Buying MGM may only be the beginning of Amazon’s content dominance

Buying MGM may only be the beginning of Amazon’s content dominance

Darth Vader weilding a lightsaber

How lightsabers went from a DIY project to culturally iconic

a woman sits in a dark house and browses on her computer, with the image overlaid with colorful pictures of a much more luxurious home within the frame of a web browser

The psychology behind our love of ‘Zillow porn’

By Nicole Johnson

An illustration of a person with footsteps

Fitness & Exercise

Why 10,000 steps a day isn’t the secret to better health

By Claire Maldarelli

Model with long brown hair along the water using a vape pen

Music videos are marketing vaping products to teens—and it’s working

By Jon-Patrick Allem/The Conversation

A person putting an Apple Pencil on a blank iPad Mini screen.

NFTs are blowing up the digital art and collectibles worlds. Here’s how they work.

By Stan Horaczek

Why square aspect ratios still live on in new movies like ‘Justice League’

By Stan Horaczek

sperm whales seen from above

Sperm whales have a surprisingly deep—and useful—culture

By Ellie Shechet

The NASA STS-39 shuttle crew in orange astronaut suits on a space backdrop

What did ’90s NASA astronauts pack for space?

By Scott Murdock/Task & Purpose

Washington Memorial at night with rows of lights along a pool

12 months of pandemic life in 12 photographs

By Purbita Saha

The sun over Maunakea volcano and research observatories in Hawaii

In Hawaii, an ancient observatory offers lessons for modern stargazers

By Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

tiny plants growing out of stacks of coins

Sci-fi carbon coins could actually save our planet

A plastic piece depicting a menacing plastic dragon on a board game

Organize and accessorize your board games with 3D printing

By RK Pendergrass

A spotify screenshot

Spotify has a major audio-quality upgrade coming later this year

By Stan Horaczek

Mona Chalabi fermented food chart

See the wonderful world of fermented foods on one delicious chart

Seville orange on wood

These oranges are for a lot more than juicing

By Carlos C. Olaechea/Saveur

Unreal Engine's MetaHuman Creator interface with model

Meet the eerily realistic digital people made with Epic’s MetaHuman Creator

By Stan Horaczek

A model in a wine-red cutout dress on a beach

Tech-savvy fashion forecasters already know what you’ll be wearing in two years

By Rachael Zisk

A baby red fox with its mouth open in a grassy field

What does the red fox say?

By Dan Nosowitz

Chinese parents and kid have a meal in their dining room

Learning a second language early might have ripple effects throughout your life

Three U.S. Air Force bombers fly over Super Bowl LV.

Everything to know about the bombers that flew over Super Bowl LV

Why ASMR calms some people down and sends others into a rage

By Eleanor Cummins

Karel Čapek's play "R.U.R." in 1921

The first ‘robots’ were made of flesh and bone

By John M. Jordan/MIT Press Reader

An open dictionary with a red cover on a table

Local languages are dying out and taking invaluable knowledge with them

Parents and two kids on New Year's in party hats and sparklers

Make your own New Year’s ball, and 4 other family party ideas

By Purbita Saha

A pack of llamas on top of a canyon in Peru

Llamas are hotter than ever. Here’s why.

By Emily Wakild/The Conversation

League of Kitchens instructor Mab Abbasgholizadeh teaches her students how to make classic Persian dishes, including crispy tahdig rice.

Multicultural cooking classes offer up something tasty on Zoom

By Max Falkowitz/Saveur

Sharing doesn’t make you a sucker. This scientist has the numbers to prove it.

By Rachel Feltman

“Ferme la Praise's" aging cave.

When specialty cheesemaking becomes a quarantine pastime

By Kat Craddock/Saveur

Billie Eilish Google AI mashup

This Billie Eilish cover is unlike any other (because it’s made by Google’s AI)

By Stan Horaczek

Disney Plus Star Wars Marvel Screen

It’s time to unsubscribe from some streaming services

By Stan Horaczek

Landing on the moon only made us love it more

By Alice Gorman/MIT Press Reader

A red and orange sunset over San Francisco

Science Fiction

Why orange skies fill us with a sense of impending doom

By Johndan Johnson-Eilola/The Conversation

Why do we love game shows like ‘Jeopardy!’ so much?

By Alex Schwartz

Japanese anime remembers the atom bomb, decades after Hiroshima

By Frank Fuller/The Conversation

Trans pride eye makeup

Exploring the common misconceptions regarding trans and non-binary identities

A blue agave plant

Five burning questions about tequila, answered

By Purbita Saha

A bowl of saag or spinach paneer

Eight international cheeses you need to try once

By Candice Wang

Solve the famous water puzzle from Die Hard 3

Solve the famous water puzzle from Die Hard 3

By Eleanor Cummins

Why we evolved to feel empathy during pandemics and other disasters

By Peter Sterling/MIT Press Reader

Oscar Bolten Green illustration

Tomatoes, tempura, and other foods whose origins will surprise you

By Eleanor Cummins

looking through telescopes skyward from a rooftop of one of the buildings of al-Aqsa University in Gaza City

A Palestinian brings stargazing to his homeland, and finds wonder alongside heartbreak

By Sarah Sax/Undark