Your Unborn Baby Catches Your Yawns
Researchers found that fetuses yawn more often after their mothers yawn, suggesting social bonding begins before birth, transmitted through pressure and shared hormones.
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Gene Therapy Worked. Four Years Later, a Tumor Grew in the Same Cells.
A child's gene therapy worked, but then a tumor showed up 4 years later with viral fragments inside it.
Pigeon Navigation Runs on Averaging. Nobody's Following the Leader.
Researchers tested seven strategies to explain how pigeon flocks get better at navigation across generations. The winner required no intelligence whatsoever.
Hello and Thanks for All the Fish
Dolphins have been hunting cooperatively with humans for centuries. Now researchers have documented another cross-species partnership; the other partner is a killer whale.
Hot Jupiter Posts Eviction Notice. Mini Neptune Ignores It.
Two planets sharing a solar system they shouldn't both occupy. JWST gave astronomers insight into the atmosphere that explains how they pulled it off.
Rice Death Trap Spikes Pests
Rice plants have been luring caterpillars to their death. Once again, nature is schooling us on how to handle pests.
Trees Found Not Guilty of Arson in LA Fires
Post-fire crews cleared trees across Altadena for safety. Then researchers mapped how the fires actually moved. Wrong direction, wrong target.
A Sulfur Swap Turns Existing Plastic Biodegradable. One Step.
99 percent of plastic won't biodegrade. A one-step sulfur swap could change that for plastic already in circulation. There's a catch, but it's a small one.
The Largest Wave in the Solar System Works Like Your Kitchen Sink
A 6,000-km wall of acid clouds sweeps around Venus every few days. Scientists finally know why, and the answer has been sitting in your kitchen the whole time.
Sugar Maple Has Defined Michigan's Forests for Centuries. Its Own Seedlings Are Replacing It.
Michigan has more sugar maples than any state in the country. Something is already replacing them. It's been growing in the understory for 25 years.
Rapa Nui Was One of Five Civilizations to Invent Writing. We Used to Be Able to Read It.
15,000 characters. 400+ glyphs. Zero translations. The people of Easter Island invented writing entirely on their own.
Fire Ice Under Greenland Exploded. Polar Ice Sheets,Take Note.
The methane was gone from Greenland's seafloor sediments. Not reduced, gone. Fifty craters blown from below tell us this has happened before. What set it off?
Poisoned Tools Confirm Ming Dynasty Surgeon's Practices
Ming Dynasty texts said surgeons used wolfsbane as anesthetic. Now there's proof on the tools themselves.
Nuclear Blast Created Impossible Crystal Cage
The glass left behind by the first nuclear bomb is still yielding structures that shouldn't exist.
You Have Genes That Regrow Limbs. The Trick Is Flipping the ON Switch.
Researchers found a shared genetic switch across three species that controls limb regrowth and used it to partially restore that ability in mice via gene therapy.
Sulfur Mollies Battle as One Body. Birds Calculate New Angles of Attack.
No individual fish makes the decision to dart; the entire shoal does. Birds hunting them developed work arounds. What does collective intelligence look like with no central brain?
The Pentagon Dropped 50 More UAP Videos. The Lake Huron File Was Worth the Wait.
The NSA released hundreds of UAP pages days before the Pentagon drop. Many are still heavily redacted and some are decades old.
A Greenland Shark's Heart Is Scarred, Stiff, and 400 Years Old. It's Still Beating.
Inside a Greenland shark's centuries-old heart, researchers found damage that would kill most vertebrates. The shark doesn't seem to notice.