Sperm Whales Have Been Using Something Like Vowels for a Very Long Time
They didn't borrow our vowels. They built their own. What does it mean when two species land on the same communication structure independently, from opposite ends of evolution?
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Engineers Printed Artificial Neurons. The Living Brain Answered Back.
Printed neurons made from electronic ink triggered real brain cells to fire — a breakthrough with direct implications for neuroprosthetics and brain-like computing.
Deep-Sea Creature Has No Place on the Tree of Life
A pale, soft-bodied deep-sea animal that kind of looks like a sea slug, but isn't was spotted at 9100m. The deep ocean has secrets.
The North Sea Is Hiding a Whole Country Beneath It
Ancient DNA pulled from North Sea sediments is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about Ice Age Europe — and filling in a conspicuous gap in human prehistory.
Ancient Romanian Megastructure Has No Obvious Boss
Archaeologists excavated a 6,200-year-old structure in Romania three to five times larger than every house around it, built by a culture with no kings and no palaces.
Mars Has the Ingredients. Nobody Knows Who Packed the Bag.
A 3.5-billion-year-old Martian rock just yielded 21 organic molecules, including a DNA precursor never seen on Mars before. So where did they come from?
Unannounced Pentagon UAP Workshop Shapes What Counts as UFO Data
UFO workshop shapes how UAP data is collected, analyzed, and recorded. Transparency and future evidence collection standards could suffer.
A Virus That Kills Shrimp Is Showing Up in Human Eyes
A seafood pathogen has turned up in the eye tissue of patients with a serious, vision-threatening condition.
Earth Has a Gravity Hole Under Antarctica
The weakest point of Earth's gravitational pull sits beneath a frozen continent. The slow deepening of that anomaly may be what built the glaciers that regulate global climate.
The Dark Matter Answer May Have Arrived From Before Time Began
The invisible glue holding galaxies together may be wreckage from a universe that died before ours began. Could dark matter predate the Big Bang itself?
Lab-Grown Brain Tissue Can Play Pong. The Next Question Is Does It Feel.
Scientists are linking lab-grown brain tissue into structures complex enough that researchers are now seriously asking, in peer-reviewed journals, whether they could be conscious. There are no regulations yet.
A WWII Navy Blimp Landed Itself in a California Suburb. The Crew Was Gone.
The blimp came back. The crew didn't. Eight decades later, the Navy's own investigation couldn't explain why two experienced airmen simply ceased to exist mid-flight.
Earth's Magnetic Shield Has a Dent That Just Got Half a Continent Bigger
Our planet's force field has a growing weak spot over the South Atlantic. Could it signal a pending magnetic pole reversal?
Space Sent Bigger Fireballs in March. People Noticed.
Double the fireballs. Rocks through roofs. Sonic booms every three days. Scientists have ruled out meteor showers, camera effects and AI. What's left?
Someone Served Neandertal Women for Dinner. Researchers Finally ID'd the Guests.
Bones from a Belgian cave reveal targeted cannibalism of outsider Neandertal women and children 45,000 years ago — and what that selectivity says about who Neandertals really were.
Something Noisy Below Tuscany Turned Out to Be on Fire
Beneath Tuscany's vineyards and medieval hill towns, a surprise the size of Yellowstone waits.
Mars Volcano Is Changing the Planet
A planet declared geologically dead for billions of years may have an active mantle plume.
A Brain That Should Be Dead Is Alive
The line between recoverable and not-recoverable for brain activity has moved.