A New Snake Species Was Named "Unbelievable." The Taxonomists Were Not Wrong.
A newly described snake in China has a tail that looks exactly like its own head. That's not even the most surprising thing about how scientists found it.
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UAP Video Interview with James Fox, a YGBFKM Exclusive
Documentary filmmaker James Fox, speaking exclusively with YGBFKM reporter Intersectoid, outlines when additional UAP records may be released and how much President Donald Trump currently knows.
Recovered Non-Human Biologics Include Bipedal Bodies and Sentient Plasma Life
For years the question was whether any of the UAP reports contained evidence of alien life. Now there's a species count, a case count, and a description government officials have never spoken about.
Your Brain Has a Read Receipt Now
A blood draw that reads your brain's gene activity in real time; no surgery, no tissue samples. The tool is called INTACT.
A Killer Whale With a Knife Hidden in The Peruvian Desert
Researchers used AI to find a cetacean geoglyph, along with 302 others from the Nazca in Peru.
The Bean Plant Has a Wasp on Speed Dial
A bean plant can identify a caterpillar by its spit, then call in wasps to deal with it. What else is quietly going on out there?
Physics Sorted Magnets into Two Bins for a Century. The Third Bin Has 200 Entries.
A third magnet type has been hiding in plain sight. A flawed diamond might be what finally proves it exists.
When It Gets Hot, Animals Lose Their Minds
Hot days, angrier animals, scrambled bird brains and a fish that brawls with mirrors.
A Tardigrade Walks Into an Oven
Water bears survive temperatures that kill most life. Now we know part of how: by rewiring their own physics.
Cats Unlock Answers About Breast Cancer
Researchers mapped the cancer genome of nearly 500 of our feline friends and found mutations that mirror human breast cancer.
Belugas Pass the Mirror Test. The Mirror Test Has a Problem.
Two belugas. One mirror. Twenty-five years of unanalyzed footage. And now a debate about whether the test itself knows what it's testing.
Liquid Iron at Earth's Core Changed Direction. Without It, Solar Winds Would Strip the Atmosphere.
The Earth's molten core pulled a U-turn beneath the Pacific in 2010. The reversal lasted a decade before weakening.
A Tadpole Tail Turns Orange When a Dragonfly Shows Up
The tadpole, like Pooh, is of very little brain. So how does it know exactly which predator is watching and which body part to sacrifice?
Mosquitoes Are Learning That DEET Smells Like Dinner
DEET has worked for 70 years. But trained mosquitoes are now drawn to it. What changed inside their tiny, terrifying brains?
The Great Pyramid Wasn't Just Built to Last. It Was Built to Shake.
4,600 years old and still acing earthquake drills. What did ancient builders know about seismic design that we're only now measuring?
A 13th-Century Merchant's Notebook Spent 800 Years in a Latrine. It's Still Readable.
A nearly intact medieval wax notebook pulled from a latrine in Paderborn still holds legible Latin cursive plus some erased layers that imaging technology may yet recover.
The Bar at the Beginning of the Universe
Stellar bars don't survive in gas-rich environments. GN20 is 75 percent gas. It has one anyway.
The Sun's Interior and Its Surface Are No Longer Telling the Same Story
Scientists have listened to acoustic waves inside the Sun since 1987. What they're hearing in the current cycle diverges significantly from what four centuries of surface observation would predict.