Your Brain Has Been Lying to You in Complete Sentences
Language might not be how your brain thinks. It might just be how it reports back. So what exactly is doing the reasoning?
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The surface of a dying giant should never look the same twice. Two images taken years apart show one bright patch that never got reshuffled. What is holding it there?
A Parasitic Plant That Looks Like a Mushroom Has Been Sending Hermit Crabs to Do Its Dirty Work
It can't make its own food, yet it turns out up to 1 million seeds. Nobody could say how they left the forest floor until a camera caught what shows up after dark.
The Bullfrog Brain Doesn't Wait for a Rescue. It Builds One.
Most brains wait for the liver to send emergency fuel. After a winter underwater, the bullfrog's brain stops waiting.
Exploding Grandmothers. Framed Predator. Missing Hours.
In this episode of the Gotta Be Kidding Me podcast, host Tammy Coron covers four stories about mistaken assumptions and second looks.
The Sun Is the Prime Suspect in a Missing Planet Case
Three long-standing mysteries about our sun. One proposed explanation that's either brilliant or deeply unsettling. What exactly is buried down there?
Cannibal Chicks: The Hoopoe Hatches a Spare
Researchers slipped one extra late-hatching egg into hoopoe nests. That chick never fledged, and the nest raised nearly two more birds anyway.
Your Dog Is Parsing Your Words
Even dogs that spent puppyhood on the street or in a shelter do it. How much talking does it take to rewire a dog's brain?
An Octopus Used a Mirror to Hunt
Before it could use the mirror, it had to stop seeing a rival in it. What an octopus understands about reflections is still an open question.
The Floor of Italy Is Peeling Off and Dropping Into the Earth
Italy's mountains keep stretching and squeezing at the same time. Something far below them is coming loose.
Earth Microbes Auditioned for Saturn's Ocean Moon. They Got the Part.
The microbes weren't supposed to make it. Researchers called it a long shot. Then they adapted, grew and started producing the exact gas Cassini already found venting into space.
This Frog Outsourced Its Defense Against a Species-Killing Fungus
One frog survives a fungus that has wiped out whole species. Another, tested the same way, doesn't. The difference is living on their skin.
A Mouse's Six Weeks in Space Showed Up in Her Grandchildren
Six weeks in orbit left the mother mice looking fine. The changes turned up in their daughters, and some were still there a generation later.
Earth's Oceans May Have Been Cooked Out of Dry Rock
The rocks that went in were bone dry. What came out, in the lab at least, was water, and possibly the recipe for filling an entire ocean.
A Dead Star Is Leaving a Wake
Something has been pushing a wave through space for at least 1,000 years. Its obvious power source is missing, and the backup can only explain a few centuries of it.
Bubbles the Dolphin Makes Fish Vomit. Then He Eats It.
Researchers watched one dolphin pull this off 11 times. Nobody knows where he learned it, or whether other dolphins are doing the same.
Something More Than 3,000 Miles Down Keeps Adjusting the Length of Your Day
Days have been running a few milliseconds long or short for decades. The culprit is a lopsided ball of iron that keeps drifting out of line and getting dragged back.
A Battery You Swallow Does Its Job, Then Disappears
Doctors work hard to get swallowed batteries back out. This one is designed to be swallowed, and a few weeks later there's nothing left to retrieve.