Ghost Shark Sports a Shorter Snout and a Very Long Head Start
Three museum specimens, two decades on a shelf, and one biology student who looked closer revealed a new shark species in the Costa Rican Pacific.
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Springtime Brings a Rumble to the Hudson River
A mysterious low rumble shakes New York's Hudson River each spring. What's causing it? A fish older than dinosaurs, doing what it's always done.
What Powers the Universe's Brightest Blue Flashes Is Worse Than a Supernova
A decade-long cosmic mystery, a class of events so violent they outshine entire galaxies for days.
The Men Who Split the Atom Couldn't Explain the Green Lights
In 1949, the scientists who built the atomic bomb held a secret meeting about something flying over their facility. They ran the numbers. They left without an answer.
Germany's Parks Are Closed. The Heat Is Record-Breaking. The Culprit Is a Caterpillar.
Record heat, no AC, and closed parks have Berlin residents caught between heatstroke and a caterpillar that doesn't need to touch you to send you to the ER.
When It Rains, It Bites
What do a warmer atmosphere, a heavy rainstorm, and a bull shark near shore have in common? More than anyone swimming at dusk wants to know.
Bacteria Have a Union Now
Bacteria under antibiotic attack split into donors and recipients, passing survival proteins between cells. The mutual aid network medicine didn't know it was up against.
A Gamma-Ray Burst Showed Up Without the Gamma Rays
It had the X-rays, the jet, the double-flash timing. Everything a gamma-ray burst leaves behind, except actual gamma rays. So what exploded?
A Family Spent 42 Years Hiding From the Soviet Union in Siberia. One of Them Is Still There.
The Lykovs survived Stalin's purges and 42 years of Siberian wilderness, but not first contact.
Pilot's Sketch on Hotel Stationery Labeled Top Secret
A 1948 sketch on hotel stationery got stamped TOP SECRET. What did two airline pilots draw that the Air Force kept classified for 78 years?
The Government Just Put a Science Team on the UAP File. The Skeptic Is on It Too.
The U.S. stood up a real scientific body to investigate UAPs, with one catch: the advisors can't see classified files, and the oversight board is secret.
Your Brain Is 99.5% Brain. The Rest Is Plastic.
A new study found microplastics in human brain tissue at concentrations 7 to 30 times higher than in other organs, and the levels are still rising.
The Pentagon Dropped Its Fourth UAP File Batch, and the Internet Did What the Internet Does
Four agencies. 40 files. One object that might scramble military sensors. The floating brain went viral, but is it really the weirdest thing in this batch?
Zombie Squirrel. Goblin Shark. Volcanic Gold.
In this debut episode of the Gotta Be Kidding Me podcast, host Tammy Coron digs into four stories that prove the natural world has absolutely no obligation to make sense. And we're here for all of it!
Iberian Ant Queen Laid an Egg. A Different Species Hatched.
A queen ant in Sicily has been cloning a species she's never been. What does "mother" even mean when the offspring belong to someone else's genome?
Roswell Grows Up
The Roswell mythology spent the 2000s losing its key witnesses and its fabricated evidence. Then the government quietly started studying UFOs again. Then it started admitting things. We still don't know what Mac Brazel found.
Dentist Spots Human Jawbone in New Tile Floor
A travertine floor tile. A dentist's trained eye. A jawbone that may have been walking around 1.8 million years ago. How many other renovations ended like this?
The Blob That Doesn't Need a Brain to Run
No brain, no nerves, no muscles, and yet it runs. What is Trichoplax actually using to feel danger, and what does the answer tell us about the origins of life itself?