Dippy Had a Passport: The 82-Foot Tourist That Crossed the Atlantic 150 Million Years Ago
Every Diplodocus bone ever found came from the same stretch of the western U.S. Then a dig in Spain turned up 14 vertebrae that didn't get the memo.
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The Mountains That Built Every Animal on Earth Are Buried Under Antarctica
A mountain chain larger than anything on Earth today vanished almost completely. Its mineral fingerprints point straight at one of evolution's biggest turning points.
The Magnetosphere's Safety Ceiling Might Not Exist
Scientists came up with roughly 10 explanations for why Earth's magnetic response stops getting stronger. A new study says they may all have been explaining the wrong thing.
Human Brain Tissue Builds Working Circuits in a Mouse
Inside a living mouse, human brain cells did something they've never done in a dish: they built neurons no lab has managed to grow before.
Black Hole Lunch. Alien Radio Signal. Whale Artistry.
In this episode of Gotta Be Kidding Me, host Tammy Coron covers four stories about perspective and place.
Asteroid Stitched Together Like a Cosmic Frankenstein
A century of observations, and we were off by two. What else out there is three things pretending to be one?
The Tasmanian Tiger Hunted Like a Crocodile, Not a Wolf
Its skull didn't match any living predator on Earth. What does that mean for the story we told ourselves, and acted on, before we checked?
The Muscle We Thought Could Not Mend
Heart muscle lost in a heart attack was supposed to be gone for good. Living human tissue shows the heart has another response.
A Whale Call Just Knocked on Einstein's Door
Whale calls near the ocean's surface look supersonic. Not because physics broke, but because of something far stranger.
Mine Water Bacteria Are Eating Uranium and Locking It Away
Bacteria pulled uranium out of contaminated mine water and turned it into something so new it has no name. It's been stable for 25 years. Nobody knows why.
At 2 Million Atmospheres, Water Stacks Itself Into Hexagonal Ice
Immense pressures exist deep inside Uranus and Neptune, where scientists have been trying to explain two very strange magnetic fields since Voyager 2 flew past.
E. coli Remembers the Hard Times. Its Grandchildren Do Too.
The memory isn't stored in a brain. It's inherited. Granddaughter cells behave differently because of stress their ancestors survived. What does that mean for antibiotic treatment?
The Haudenosaunee Confederacy Showed the Colonies How to Build a Union. Benjamin Franklin Took Notes.
A working indigenous confederacy showed the colonies exactly what to do. Similar guiding principles made it into the U.S. Constitution.
A Dark Road, September 19, 1961: The First Documented Alien Abduction in America
A four hour drive home took seven, and neither of them could say why. The Hills' story became the template for alien abductions.
Ricefield Eels Start Female. The Thermostat Decides What Comes Next.
They start female. Somewhere along the way, their surroundings can begin pushing their ovaries toward testes. Researchers think they've found the molecular switch.
A Photon Survived a 2-Billion-Light-Year Cosmic Gauntlet
A photon from the most powerful explosion since the Big Bang survived a journey physics says should have killed it. One hour late. Exactly on schedule for something that shouldn't exist.
Resistant PTSD May Have Met Its Match in Mushrooms
The improvement began before the first dose. Then the symptoms dropped much further. A small trial is raising a surprisingly complicated question about what makes psychedelic therapy work.
AI Sees Colors That Aren't There
A black-and-white spinning disk has fooled human eyes for generations. Now a predictive network is producing the same illusion, and its training history may explain why.