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Crows Can Make Decisions Based on Visual Information at Lightning Speed—Roughly Twice as Fast as Humans Can, Study Suggests

Mexico's Bread of the Dead Kneads Together Indigenous and Catholic Traditions

The Bloody Palette of the Animal Kingdom Goes Far Beyond Red. These Creatures Have Blood That Runs a Chilling Blue, Bright Green or Milky White

From a Black Limo With a Silken Armchair to a Bulletproof 'Sardine Can,' the Vatican Looks Back at the Evolution of the Popemobile

'Gulliver's Travels' Turns 300 This Week. Jonathan Swift's 'Profound Satire of Human Nature' Is Still Just as Bitingly Relevant

Drug-Resistant Germs Now Kill More Than 50,000 Americans Each Year, According to a New CDC Report

Paleontologists Discover the First Known Amphibian That Lived Entirely at Sea: a Flat, Armored Creature From 237 Million Years Ago

A Rare Nanotyrannus Skeleton Sells for $47.3 Million, Becoming the Second Most Valuable Dinosaur Ever Auctioned

Readers Respond to the September/October 2026 Issue

A Cult Grew Around the First Emperor of Rome in 27 B.C. A New Book Argues His Followers Might Have Created the Template for Christianity

As Winnie-the-Pooh Turns 100, the Original Stuffed Toy Remains in New York. Will the Silly Old Bear Ever Return to Britain?

The World's Newest Carnivorous Plant Is a Red Sundew That 'Death Hugs' Its Insect Prey. Its Survival Depends on a Rare and Disappearing Florida Habitat

Before Mountain Biking Became One of the Most Popular Recreational Sports, Adventurous Souls of the American West Had to Invent a Rugged Bike

Dolores Huerta, Farmworker Rights Activist Who Coined 'Sí Se Puede,' Dies at 96

See 18 Captivating Images From the European Wildlife Photographer of the Year Contest

'Lie Down and Look Up' at England's Most Ornate Ceilings, From Sparkling Gold-Leaf Stars to Intricate Plaster Designs at Queen Victoria's Seaside Retreat

Did Women and Children Collaborate With Male Artisans to Create China's Terra-Cotta Army? Fingerprints Left on the 2,000-Year-Old Clay Warriors May Hold the Answer

Some Monkeys Seem to Become Germophobic After Living Through a Disease Outbreak, Just Like Humans

Hundreds of Baby Whales Have Died in Argentina This Year—and Scientists Are Scrambling to Understand Why

In NASA's Plan for Artemis 3, SpaceX and Blue Origin Will Compete to Have Their Landers Take Humans Back to the Moon's Surface

Romans Made Color-Changing Glass With Ancient Nanotechnology. Scientists Just Discovered How to Replicate the 1,600-Year-Old Marvel

How Astronomers and Art Historians Are Working Together to Identify the Inspiration Behind Famous Works of Art

Ben Franklin Wasn’t Serious When He Implied the Wild Turkey Would Be a ‘Respectable’ National Symbol … but He Wasn’t Wrong, Either

Looted by Nazis and Recently Restituted, a Kaleidoscopic Kandinsky Painting Just Sold for Nearly $42 Million

Specialists Removed Three Thrilling, Century-Old Murals From the Walls of a French Monastery. Beneath, They Made 'a Discovery for the History of Art'

Divers Recover a Mysterious Cauldron That Had Been Hiding at the Bottom of an English River for Hundreds of Years

This 11-Foot-Wide, Bowl-Shaped Object Was Found in a Minnesota Cornfield. Experts Suspect It's a Stray Rocket Part

The United Kingdom Is Launching Giant Claws Into Orbit to Clean Up Space Junk. You Can Help Name the First-of-Its-Kind Mission

Two Thousand Years Ago, a New Ice Age Began—but Human-Caused Climate Change Recently Reversed It, According to New Research

An Italian Farmer Found Some Unknown Seeds in His Attic and, With Nothing to Lose, Planted Them. The Result Was Almost Biblical

How Do Sea Creatures Survive the Intense Pressure of Living Deep in the Water? And More Questions From Our Readers

See the Sweeping Dune Walls and 125-Foot Bas-Relief Sculpture at the National Mall's Newest Memorial, Dedicated to Veterans of Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm

Bats Thrive in a Messy, Noisy World. These Four Discoveries Reveal How They Can Listen and Chatter Through the Din

Bison Used to Roam Eastern Europe Before They Neared Extinction. Now Researchers in Poland Want to Create a Suitable Home Where They Can Thrive

A Fire Ravaged the 'Eagle's Nest,' an Alpine Retreat Built for Top Nazis. What Happens Next?

Shamonda Virus Infected and Killed a Person for the First Time. Here's What to Know About the Pathogen Usually Found in Livestock

Art Museums in Milwaukee and Tampa Bay Are Betting That Their Hometown Baseball Teams Will Win the World Series. The Wager? Monet Paintings

Two Years After World War II Ended, This Ship Brought the Bodies of 6,251 Fallen Service Members Back Home to America

Most of the World's Shallow-Water Coral Reefs Have Been Deemed Critically Endangered, Meaning They Could Collapse Within 50 Years

Scientists Estimate That Europe's Scorching Summer Heat Killed More Than 50,000 People in Urban Areas

Rule Breaking Is Contagious. Just a Few Extreme Troublemakers Can Turn a Whole Group Into Rebels, Study Suggests

This Massive, 'Mega-Rare' Monet Painting Is Now the Most Expensive Artwork Ever Sold at Auction in France

A Soldier in Vietnam Recorded His Letter Home Because He Thought It Was Easier Than Writing. It’s a 43-Minute Splice of History

Archaeologists at This Ancient Maya Metropolis in the Forest of Belize Are Debunking Long-Held Myths About the Mesoamerican Civilization

Listening Differently: How One Orchestra Is Reimagining the Concert Experience

A Team of Astronomers Thinks They Have Identified the Exact Night Sky That Inspired Vincent van Gogh's 'Starry Night.' Not Everyone Is Convinced

For the First Time, Scientists Trapped an Elusive Antimatter Particle—and Contained It for Months. It Could Allow Them to Test an Enduring Physics Theory

Immerse Yourself in the Cosmos at Frank Lloyd Wright's Only Planetarium, Recently Restored to Its Former Glory in Florida

Astronomers Detect the Oldest Known Fast Radio Burst, Spewed From an Ancient Galaxy Just Three Billion Years After the Big Bang

'Wildwood' Is the Longest Stop-Motion Animated Film Ever. Each Frame of the Movie Is a Marvel of Handcrafted World Building