Triton Massacred Neptune's Moons. The Outlier Survived.
Nereid was filed under "captured outsider" for decades. JWST says it's the only original moon that survived Triton's arrival. The orbit we called wrong is why it's still there.
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Brain in a Jar Is Alive, Not Sci-Fi
A startup is keeping dead human brains metabolically alive to test Alzheimer's and Parkinson's drugs. The science is real. So are the ethical questions.
Bird Retinas Contain No Blood Vessels. They Run on Sugar Instead.
The pecten oculi, a comb-like structure in bird eyes studied since the 1600s, is inspiring new research that could help stroke recovery.
The Bamboo Is Running the Panda Show
A carnivore that eats almost nothing but plants and may not even have a choice. What's inside panda blood is weirder than the diet itself.
Your Legs Turn to Rubber at a Cliff's Edge. It Isn't Fear.
Your nervous system runs a secret balance protocol near every ledge you've ever stood on. Why do some people feel it and others don't?
A Poet's Diary. Red Vapors Over Kyoto. Buried Timber. All Evidence of a Medieval Solar Storm.
A 13th-century Japanese poet recorded red skies lasting three nights. Scientists found the solar storm that caused it in 800-year-old wood.
Giant Squid. A Faceless Eel. A Bony-Eared Assfish. All Live Four Kilometers Deep Off Australia.
Environmental DNA shed by animals in the ocean is allowing scientists to record what lives in deep sea habitats.
Snuffleupagus Isn't Imaginary. He Lives in the Pacific Ocean.
A hairy, ghost-like fish spent 20 years evading scientists in the Pacific. What finally convinced them it was real?
Magic Mushrooms Arrest Cocaine Addiction
A randomized psilocybin trial to treat cocaine use disorder reported a 30% abstinence rate at six months. The placebo group hit zero.
Turns Out Cats Are Not Curious. They Just Like Being Right.
A study reveals that cats react more strongly to expected outcomes than surprising ones, which is the opposite of dogs, apes and infants.
Rocky, Gaseous, Gaseous, Rocky. The Universe Skipped Astronomy 101.
A star 116 light-years away built its planets in an order that shouldn't exist. What happened out there at the edge?
Inside Petra's Treasury, a Tomb. Indiana Jones Missed These Bones.
A sealed tomb beneath Petra’s most studied monument waited untouched and intact. Even the most explored sites can still hide entire worlds right under our feet.
To Catch a Liar, Stop Looking at Them
Your brain treats a lying face like a puzzle it can't put down, and that's exactly the problem. The real tells aren't where you're looking.
The End of the Universe
Astronomers say we've been misreading dark energy; the cosmological constant is negative. Not good news for the universe.
Fermented Clean-up Crew Clears Microplastics. Thanks, Kimchi.
Something in a fermented staple of Korean cuisine can grip nanoplastic particles inside the gut and carry them out, even where other probiotics completely lose their hold.
Fight Clubs of the Cosmos
Too massive to originate from a single collapsing star, the biggest black holes form from a series of clashes of smaller black holes.
The NSA Tracked Objects That Scrambled Entire Fighter Squadrons. The Files Are Finally Out. Parts of Them.
Sixty-year-old government records. The mundane ones got declassified. The ones describing things that defied explanation are still redacted.
Africa Files for Separation, Cites Irreconcilable Tectonic Differences
The crust under East Africa has been stretching thin for four million years. A new ocean is already in the works.