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A conference just tested AI agents’ ability to do science

Napoleon’s retreating army may have been plagued by these microbes

Brain cancer can dissolve parts of the skull

Subway mosquitoes evolved millennia ago in ancient Mediterranean cities

Dinosaurs were thriving before the asteroid hit, new analysis suggests

Coffee beans pooped out by civets really are tastier. Here’s why

Which venomous snakes strike the fastest?

Quantum ‘echoes’ reveal the potential of Google’s quantum computer

Scientists and fishers have teamed up to find a way to save manta rays

Most women get uterine fibroids. This researcher wants to know why

An ancient bone recasts how Indigenous Australians treated megafauna

A tiny, levitated glass sphere behaves like the hottest engine ever made

COVID-related smell loss may last years

Guppies fall for a classic optical illusion. Doves, usually, do too

Even for elite athletes, the body’s metabolism has its limits

Big questions on how food affects our health

A rice weevil frozen in flight won the 2025 Nikon Small World photo contest

Our relationship with alcohol is fraught. Ancient customs might inspire a reset

An estimated 54,600 young children are malnourished in Gaza

As wildfires worsen, science can help communities avoid destruction

These ancient bumblebees were found with their pollen source

Fossil hand bones point to tool use outside the Homo lineage

We all have a (very tiny) glow of light, no movie magic needed

The viral Chicago ‘Rat Hole’ almost certainly wasn’t made by a rat

How a Yurok family played a key role in the world’s largest dam removal project

New wetsuit designs offer a layer of protection against shark bites

Coral collapse signals Earth’s first climate tipping point

Astronomers saw a rogue planet going through a rapid growth spurt

Brain scans reveal where taste and smell become flavor

Lasers made muon beams, no massive accelerator needed

Worlds Apart Crossword

Mic’d bats reveal midnight songbird attacks

Toy-obsessed dogs give clues to addictive behaviors

You’re probably eating enough protein, but maybe not the right mix

Chemistry that works like Hermione’s magic handbag wins a 2025 chemistry Nobel

Biased online images train AI bots to see women as younger, less experienced

Are ultraprocessed foods truly addictive?

Antarctic krill eject more food when it’s contaminated with plastic

Discoveries that enabled quantum computers win the Nobel Prize in physics

What the longest woolly rhino horn tells us about the beasts’ biology

Finding immune cells that stop a body from attacking itself wins medicine Nobel

New oral GLP-1 drugs could offer more options for weight loss

What Jane Goodall taught me about bones, loss and not wasting anything

To make a tasty yogurt, just add ants (and their microbes)

Nobel Prizes honor great discoveries — but leave much of science unseen

AI-designed proteins test biosecurity safeguards

How dandelions rig the odds for catching upward gusts

A grapevine bacteria may help douse wildfire-tainted wine’s ashy aftertaste

These parachutes unfurl thanks to the Japanese art of kirigami

AI generated its first working genome: a tiny bacteria killer