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Cat midair twisting body during a fall, demonstrating how its flexible spine helps it land on its feet

A Japanese study finally explains in detail how cats almost always land on their feet, and the secret lies in a very specific, flexible part of their spine

May 2, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Blackboard with Albert Einstein quote about education alongside classroom setting focused on sustainability learning

Albert Einstein, scientist: “Education is what remains after you have forgotten what you learned in school”

May 2, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Prehistoric pottery with charred food residue showing evidence of ancient European hunter-gatherer meals with fish and wild plants

The diet of hunter-gatherers in Europe thousands of years ago was far more varied, rich, and appetizing than we had been led to believe for decades

May 2, 2026 at 3:00 PM
U.S. aircraft carrier USS Nimitz and destroyer USS Gridley operating near Panama during regional naval deployment

A 333-meter aircraft carrier and a missile destroyer arrive in Panamanian waters with thousands of U.S. sailors, and the stop comes as Washington moves one of its most visible naval symbols through Latin America

May 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Viscoelastic slime toy showing liquid and solid behavior when stretched and impacted

What appeared to be a simple “snot” toy that captivated children in the 1980s and 1990s was, in fact, a fluid that stretches, wrinkles, and hardens, and is capable of behaving like both a liquid and a solid at the same time

May 2, 2026 at 12:07 PM
Illustration of spider webs and insects highlighting spiders’ role in pest control and ecosystem balance

If spiders suddenly disappeared from Earth, the initial relief many people would feel would be short-lived, as the ecological and biological void they would leave behind would be quite severe

May 2, 2026 at 10:15 AM
NASA Van Allen Probe A reentering Earth’s atmosphere over the Pacific after years studying radiation belts

After 14 years in space, a NASA probe is about to return to Earth in the least graceful way possible, but there is no real cause for alarm

May 2, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Two researchers smiling in a laboratory setting, with one pointing to a microscope and computer monitor displaying cryopreserved brain cells.

For the first time, scientists have managed to restore electrical activity in a frozen mouse brain, and that single sentence is enough to spark curiosity, a sense of wonder, and many questions

May 2, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Portrait of a famous theoretical physicist in a wheelchair, warning humanity must expand into space to survive 1,000 years

Stephen Hawking, scientist: “I don’t think humanity will survive the next thousand years, at least not without expanding into space”

May 2, 2026 at 6:03 AM
Large-scale data center infrastructure powering artificial intelligence systems with high energy and cooling demands

Italy’s second-richest man makes a disturbing comment about artificial intelligence and companies that, almost without saying so, are training their own replacements

May 1, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Visualization of particle collision tracks used to identify the Xi-cc-plus baryon in a high-energy physics detector

CERN has detected a particle similar to a proton, but about four times heavier, and so rare that detecting it has been much more complicated than it seems

May 1, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Flexible wearable patch that generates electricity from sweat using an enzymatic biofuel cell printed on a thin substrate

Japanese scientists have created a device capable of converting sweat into electricity, and the idea seems so outlandish that it is hard not to want to find out how it works

May 1, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Chest CT scan highlighting the thymus gland and its structure used to assess immune system health in adults

There is a small organ in your body that almost no one talks about, and it turns out it might be much more important to your immune system than we have been led to believe for years

May 1, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Global map visualization showing the seasonal movement and northeast shift of Earth’s vegetation center based on satellite data

The planet’s green belt is shifting, and scientists are concerned: terrestrial vegetation is moving northeast at an accelerating rate

May 1, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Artistic visualization of multiple exoplanets in habitable zones identified as candidates for future life detection studies

There is already a list of 45 planets that could come in handy if Earth were to find itself in a truly dire situation, and that number gives us plenty of room to dream up a Plan B.

May 1, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Atomic-scale image of a carbon ring molecule with half Möbius electron topology mapped using scanning probe microscopy

They have created a molecule never before seen in nature with an extremely strange half-Möbius topology, and even the electrons behave in a very unusual way inside it

May 1, 2026 at 6:30 AM
llustration of Neanderthal and Homo sapiens individuals representing interbreeding patterns revealed by X chromosome DNA analysis

What if DNA were telling a story of unequal attraction between sapiens and Neanderthals that is far more human, complex, and uncomfortable than we had imagined until now?

April 30, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Artist’s illustration of a super-Earth exoplanet orbiting a red dwarf star in the habitable zone

A potentially habitable super-Earth has been discovered just 10 light years away, and the big question of what might be waiting for us out there returns with a vengeance

April 30, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man showing a human figure inscribed in a circle and square with geometric proportions

After 500 years, they believe they have found the key that could solve one of the greatest mysteries of the Vitruvian Man, Leonardo’s most famous and enigmatic drawing.

April 30, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Global weather map showing temperature and rainfall anomalies linked to a potential super El Niño event

Meteorologists are beginning to talk about a possible super El Niño in the coming months, and that combination already points to maps filled with heat, extreme rainfall, and very rare phenomena

April 30, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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