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Animal personalities can trip up science, but there’s a solution
Enlarge / Even hermit crabs have individual patterns of behavior — personalities, if you like. When scientists ignore the effects of such differences, they may produce research that’s flawed. (credit:...
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As glaciers retreat, new streams for salmon
Enlarge / Wolf Point Creek is likely the most-well-studied glacier-fed stream in the world. (credit: Elizabeth via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0)) Pushing off from the dock on a boat called the Capelin, Sandy...
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A warmer planet, less nutritious plants and… fewer grasshoppers?
Enlarge / A two-striped grasshopper in Markham, Ontario, Canada. (credit: Creative Touch Imaging Ltd./NurPhoto via Getty Images) It’s tough out there for a hungry grasshopper on the Kansas prairie....
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Mysteries of the poisonous amphibians
Enlarge / A Granular Poison Frog (Oophaga granulifera) sits on the edge of a leaf. (credit: Paul Osborne via Getty Images) From the brightly colored poison frogs of South America to the...
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The long-awaited mission that could transform our understanding of Mars
Enlarge (credit: NASA/JPL/Cal Tech) March 17, 2022, was a rough day for Jorge Vago. A planetary physicist, Vago heads science for part of the European Space Agency’s ExoMars program. His team was mere...
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The challenges and promises of climate lawsuits
Enlarge / Shareholders of the Swiss National Bank (SNB), join a demonstration against the central bank's investments in the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP), ahead of the annual general meeting...
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The neurons that make you feel hangry
Enlarge (credit: warrenrandalcarr via Getty Images) Maybe it starts with a low-energy feeling, or maybe you’re getting a little cranky. You might have a headache or difficulty concentrating. Your...
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A shocking number of birds are in trouble
Enlarge / Birds, with their different shapes, colorful plumage and fascinating behaviors, are a delight to people all over the world. They’re also in trouble. (credit: MriyaWildlife via Getty Images)...
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Clever DNA tricks
Enlarge (credit: NIH) Every person starts as just one fertilized egg. By adulthood, that single cell has turned into roughly 37 trillion cells, many of which keep dividing to create the same amount of...
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Probing the mysteries of neutron stars with a surprising earthly analog
Enlarge / Spectral analysis indicates that silica is present in this supernova remnant, Cassiopeia A. (credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ O. Krause (Steward Observatory)) Ever since neutron stars were...
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Could there be upsides to being a psychopath?
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) Think of a psychopath and any number of Hollywood villains might come to mind, from charming killers like Hannibal Lecter to Anton Chigurh, portrayed...
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Why we desperately need wild bees
Enlarge / The black and golden bumblebee, Bombus auricomus, is typically found in grasslands in the Great Plains and eastern states. (credit: alle12 via Getty) When ecologist Rachael Winfree first...
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A look into the REM dreams of the animal kingdom
Enlarge / A cuttlefish swims in an aquarium at the Scientific Center of Kuwait on March 20, 2016, in Kuwait City. (credit: YASSER AL-ZAYYAT/AFP via Getty Images) Young jumping spiders dangle by a...
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What can we do about ultraprocessed foods?
Enlarge (credit: Cathy Scola via Getty Images) From breakfast cereals and protein bars to flavored yogurt and frozen pizzas, ultraprocessed foods are everywhere, filling aisle upon aisle at the...
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How climate change could make fungal diseases worse
Enlarge / Histoplasma capsulatum is a species of parasitic, yeast-like dimorphic fungus that can, if inhaled, cause a type of lung infection called histoplasmosis. (credit: Nanoclustering/Science...
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What would signal life on another planet?
Enlarge / Surveying the atmospheres of planets beyond the solar system, such as those in the TRAPPIST-1 system (artist’s concept of four of the system’s seven planets shown), could turn up interesting...
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The quest to understand tornadoes
Enlarge / This stovepipe tornado formed under an intense rotating wall cloud near Keota, Iowa, on March 31, 2023. (credit: Jonah Lange/Getty ) One muggy day in July 1986, a news helicopter was...
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Where the heck did all those structures inside complex cells come from?
Enlarge / Computer illustration of mitochondria, membrane-enclosed cellular organelles that produce energy. (credit: KATERYNA KON/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/GETTY) More than 1.5 billion years ago, a...
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Why scientists are making transparent wood
Enlarge / See-through wood has a number of interesting properties that researchers hope to exploit. (credit: WILEY‐VCH VERLAG GMBH & CO. KGAA, WEINHEIM) Thirty years ago, a botanist in Germany had...
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Why interstellar objects like ‘Oumuamua and Borisov may hold clues to exoplanets
Enlarge / The first interstellar interloper detected passing through the Solar System, 1l/‘Oumuamua, came within 24 million miles of the Sun in 2017. It’s difficult to know exactly what ‘Oumuamua...
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