The Chancay False Head: Inside a 1,000-Year-Old Mask Made of Real Human Hair
It sits in Baltimore now. Quiet. Cold. But a millennium ago, it had a job.
The Walters Art Museum holds a wooden face that isn’t...
Is AI Conscious? Why We Can’t Ignore the Risk of Creating Digital Suffering
Anthropic recently published a constitution for Claude that admitted something unsettling: the company is caught in a tricky spot. They don’t want to overstate...
Why AI Will Never Think Like Humans: The Case of Tacit Knowledge
Peter Denning is not mincing words. A prominent computer scientist and author of the new analysis Turing’s Mistake: Escaping the Yoke of Unintelligent machines,...
Why Clams Beat Brachiopods: The Physiology Behind the Permian Mass Extinction
Clams rule our beaches. You dig them. You steam them. You eat them by the gallon. Brachiopods? Not so much. You rarely find them....
Andy Burnham’s North Sea Policy: What Actually Happens with Oil and Gas Licences
The headlines are loud. The speculation is loud. And if recent reports are to be believed, so is the narrative surrounding Andy Burnham’s energy...
James Webb Spots 4.4-Billion-Year-Old Galaxy Merge in New Cosmic Snapshot
Gravity acts like a lens. It bends space, twists time, and magnifies light that would otherwise remain hidden in the dark. Albert Einstein guessed...
Japan Lands Reusable Rocket: What RV-X Test Means for Space Travel
The RV-X just landed. Softly, on a concrete pad, in Noshiro. It’s a prototype, not yet an orbital beast, but the move signals something...
The Real Secret to Becoming a Centenarian After 55 Years of Research
Stop looking for a silver bullet. There isn’t one.
If you’re trying to hack your biology to reach age 100, a new massive review suggests...
Why Midwife Toads Survive the Chytrid Fungus That Killed Other Amphibians
Batrachochytrium dendrobatidas didn't ask for permission.
It swept in. It killed.
This fungal pathogen is the worst infectious disease killer in recent ecological history. More extinctions,...
Hypoxia therapy rescues brain cells damaged by HTRA2 protein defects
We breathe air. We assume more oxygen means better health. We are wrong.
At least, when your mitochondria are breaking, too much oxygen is poison....
How 385-Million-Year- Old Chinese Amber Rewrites Plant History
Old isn’t old enough anymore. Not for amber.
A team of paleontologists has uncovered the oldest confirmed fossilized resin ever found, hiding in coal seams...
Kill Them All
“Unfortunately, the only way to do this is eradication of grey squirrel”
Bill Ferguson sounds blunt. Maybe too blunt for a nature magazine feature, but...
We found an atmosphere. It’s on a rocky world. And that’s huge.
Forget the noise for a second. This is actually good news. Astronomers have found something rare. The very first atmosphere detected on a rocky,...
An Earth-like World, Actually Breathable?
We found something. Not gas giants. Not fluffy sub-Neptunes.
An atmosphere on a rocky world.
LHS 1140 sits 49 light-years away, tucked into the constellation Cetus....
New monkey species found in Congo
Pinkish-orange lips. A black face. A new primate just showed up in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Hidden way up high in the canopy. Lomami...
Frog Legs Shimmer Like Opals
Nature hides its best tricks in weird places.
Meet the green and golden bell frog. Endangered. Common looking. A bit of pattern here and there...
Hubble Snagging Four Hiding White Dwarfs
Close-in.
Right next door.
For decades, astronomers have scoured the sky for dead stars lurking near living ones. They’ve missed four. Specifically, four white dwarfs hugging...
The City Starving for Soil
It is hard to grow food when you have no ground to stand on.
In London. Especially now.
Campaigners want a change. Not just in spirit...
The Ontong Java Paradox
It sits beneath the waves. Hidden. Massive.
The Ontong Java Plateau isn't just a bump on the ocean floor. It is a continental-scale volcanic structure,...
Optimizing for Empathy
This is Optimizer. Victoria Song writes this weekly for The Verge to dissect the gizmos that promise to fix your life. Sign up if...
