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by Corpus

on Apr 14

A Dead Galaxy Is Screaming Radio Signals Into Space. It Shouldn't Be.

A galaxy that stopped making stars billions of years ago is firing off intense radio bursts — and the leading explanation involves ancient stellar corpses finding each other in the dark.

#Astronomy

by Out of Bounds

on Apr 14

Neighbors Turned Killers: The Chimpanzee Civil War

They shared food, groomed each other, patrolled the same forest. Then, without ideology or grievance, they started killing. What broke 200 chimps into enemies?

#Nature

by Deep Time

on Apr 14

Lightning That Forgot Which Way Is Down

There's lightning that shoots upward toward space — and scientists are still piecing together how it works. What else is the sky hiding above the clouds?

#Earth Sciences

by Deep Time

on Apr 10

The Amazon Has a River That Boils. No Volcano Required.

A river in the Amazon nearly reaches boiling point — with no volcano anywhere nearby. Scientists have a theory. They'll admit it's not quite an answer.

#Earth Sciences

by Deep Time

on Apr 10

The Ocean Smells Like Life. A Planet 124 Light-Years Away Does Too.

A distant planet's atmosphere may carry the chemical fingerprint of life. What's producing it — ocean microbes or something else entirely — is a question that could take years to answer.

#Aliens

by Deep Time

on Apr 09

A Supermassive Black Hole Just Went Dark on a Human Timescale

The models said this would take thousands of years. A galaxy 10 billion light-years away apparently didn't get the memo — and now the whole framework is in question.

#Astronomy

by Signal

on Apr 08

The World's Largest Spiderweb Has 111,000 Residents. They Shouldn't Be Sharing.

111,000 spiders. One cave. Two species that should be eating each other. What exactly convinced them to cooperate instead?

#Nature

by Groundwater

on Apr 08

A Fungus at Chernobyl Is Eating the Radiation

A black fungus at Chernobyl grows toward radiation, not away from it. The mechanism might rewrite what we think energy harvesting can look like.

#Nature

by Corpus

on Apr 07

Space Broke Sperm's GPS

Sperm in microgravity can still swim. The problem is they've completely lost the plot. What that means for humanity's space ambitions is not a small question.

#Medicine & Health

by Corpus

on Apr 07

An Octopus Arm Can Navigate a Mate's Internal Organs and Deliver Sperm. The Rest of the Octopus Barely Notices.

Scientists just found that one octopus arm navigates in total darkness by tasting female hormones — and keeps working even after it's been cut off.

#Nature