- New research shows that seabirds’ ingestion of the pollutant scars their insides—a new disease called “plasticosis”—and may disturb their microbiomes.
- The neocortex is the seat of human intellect. New data suggests that mammals created it with new types of cells only after their evolutionary split from reptiles.
- As climate change makes storms warmer and wetter, the state’s flood control system is struggling to keep up.
- To see if those videos of people conjuring liquid without any external power actually hold water, you’ll need physics—and a straw.
- Privately run genealogy databases have become a crucial tool for police investigators. Now a nonprofit is collecting data to help crack more cold cases.
- Governments are ignoring calls to stop fossil fuel expansion—despite there being little time left to avoid the worst effects of global warming.
- An energy-saving coating needs no pigments, and it keeps the surface beneath it 30 degrees cooler.
- The hard electrodes inserted into the brain to treat Parkinson’s and paralysis damage the organ’s soft tissue. A new invention could change that.
- Wild hogs destroy crops, uproot landscapes, and spread diseases—and not much is stopping them.
- The planet is on track for catastrophic warming unless countries take extreme action, according to the IPCC’s latest climate report.