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A Robot Is Unraveling the Secrets of How Some Bats Bounce Sound Waves Off Leaves to Find Insect Prey

Three Stunning Ways Biologists Aim to Edit Animal and Plant Genes to Fight Diseases and Extinction

This Plant Produces Plump, Fake Berries to Trick Birds Into Spreading Its Offspring Far and Wide

A Sprawling Sculpture Garden Featuring Modern Masterpieces Is Coming to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam

Oscar Wilde's Portraits, Poems, Letters and Manuscripts Head to Auction 125 Years After His Death

Hundreds of Ancient Roman Blade Sharpeners Emerge From a Riverbank in England, Revealing the Ruins of a 2,000-Year-Old Whetstone Factory

A Cow Named Veronika Can Scratch Her Back With a Broom. Watch the Video That Scientists Are Calling the First Documented Evidence of Cattle Using Tools

This Dinosaur May Have Used Its Strange Clawed Hands to Pilfer and Pierce Eggs

These Baffling Bone Artifacts Discovered by an Amateur Archaeologist May Be the World's Oldest Whale Harpoons

Ötzi the Iceman May Have Carried a Cancer-Causing Strain of HPV, a Common Virus Still Plaguing Humans Today

'Aha' Moments Seem to Come Out of Nowhere. How Does the Brain Create These Sudden Bursts of Insight?

History Remembered This Black Medal of Honor Recipient for the Two Worst Days of His Life. A New Book Dives Into the Vietnam Vet's Story

You Can See a Swirling Sculpture Made of 8,000 Books at a Library in Prague

The Public Baths of Ancient Pompeii Were Actually Pretty Gross—Until the Romans Built an Aqueduct

Contents of a Wolf Pup’s Stomach From 14,400 Years Ago Are Teaching Researchers About the Lives of the Last Woolly Rhinos

All Nine of Jan van Eyck's Surviving Portraits Are Coming Together for the Very First Time in History

Greenland Sharks Can Survive for Centuries—and Maintain Long-Lasting Vision, Despite Living in the Dark

Who Was the Inspiration Behind the ‘Gibson Girl’ Illustrations? The Artist Said She Was Every Woman

Jupiter's Moon Europa Is a Top Candidate for Hosting Alien Life. But It May Lack the Geologic Activity Needed to Birth Microbes

NASA to Resume Search for Missing Mars Orbiter, But Prospects of Re-establishing Communication With It Seem Slim

Spaceflight Temporarily Changes the Position and Shape of Astronauts' Brains, MRI Data Suggests

New Livestream Tour Takes Tourists Underneath Rome Into Never-Before-Seen ‘House of Griffins’

Could This Portrait of an Elderly Man With a Young Woman's Face Hidden in His Beard Be a Long-Lost Study by Peter Paul Rubens?

Archaeologists Unearth Intricately Decorated Box Carved From Deer Bone That May Have Once Held Ancient Ointments

Queen Bumblebees' Tongues Aren't Built for Slurping Nectar—Which Might Keep the Royals Homebound

Why the Computer Scientist Behind the World's First Chatbot Dedicated His Life to Publicizing the Threat Posed by A.I.

The Hidden World of Cold-Water Corals Rises to the Surface With These Glass Sculptures That Are Resurrecting a Lost Craft

Can't Get Started on a Daunting Task? This Brain Circuit That Slams the Brakes on Motivation Might Be to Blame

Months Before Rosa Parks Made Headlines, Claudette Colvin Refused to Give Up Her Seat for a White Woman on a Segregated Bus

See a 157-Year-Old Great Lakes Shipwreck in Stunning Detail With This New 3D Scan

This Mysterious Gas Cloud Spotted Around a Dead Star Is Beautiful—but Astronomers Say It Shouldn’t Be There

Astronomers Find an Odd Space Cloud, Like a Galaxy Without Stars, That Could Shed Light on the Secrets of Dark Matter

Archaeologists Stumble Upon Mysterious Medieval Village While Preparing for New Wind Farms in England

Naked Mole-Rats Prefer Low-Oxygen Air That Would Kill Most Mammals, Adding to Their List of Death-Defying Superpowers

See the Blades That Carried Boitano to Gold in the ‘Battle of the Brians’ in the 1988 Olympics

Samuel Green Freed Himself and Others From Slavery. Then He Was Imprisoned Over Owning a Book

Readers Respond to the December 2025 Issue

Biologists Reveal How Same-Sex Sexual Behavior May Have Given Some Primates an Evolutionary Advantage

You Can Soon Step Inside David Bowie's Childhood Bedroom, Restored to the Way It Looked When He Was 16

A Cat Left Paw Prints on the Pages of This Medieval Manuscript When the Ink Was Drying 500 Years Ago

Not Getting Enough Sleep? You Might Be Shortening Your Lifespan

Eating Large Amounts of Certain Preservatives Might Increase Your Risk of Developing Cancer and Type 2 Diabetes

The Race Is On to Save the Alps' Famous Huts and Trails as Melting Permafrost Threatens to Destroy Them

Some Dogs Are 'Gifted Word Learners' That Learn Language by Eavesdropping—Just Like Human Toddlers

This Invasive Wasp Is Wreaking Havoc on Elms in North America—and the Damage May Soon Spread to Other Trees

When Some Elephants Raid Farms, They Might Not Be After a Snack. They Could Be Looking for Medicinal Plants

Miles Davis Emerged From Middle America to Become the ‘Picasso of Jazz’ and Taught Us All How to Be Cool

Maggots Are an Incredibly Efficient Source of Protein, Which May Make Them the Next Superfood for Humans

Archaeologists Say They've Unearthed a Massive Medieval Cargo Ship That's the Largest Vessel of Its Kind Ever Found

OpenAI Says ChatGPT Health Can Understand Users' Medical Data and Provide Personalized Answers to Their Questions