This Shark Lives 400 Years. Its DNA May Explain Why.
Scientists have mapped the genome of the Greenland shark, which could offer clues to the animal’s extreme longevity.
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This Is What Happens When Tigers Try to Sneak Up on Small Bears
Videos in India show that sloth bears seem unaware of being stalked by the ferocious felines. When the tigers try to strike, the bears often get the better of them.
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A Test for Life Versus Non-Life
In a new book, physicist Sara Walker argues that assembly theory can explain what life is, and even help scientists create new forms of it.
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Neutrinos: The inscrutable “ghost particles” driving scientists crazy
They hold the keys to new physics. If only we could understand them.
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America’s Never-Ending Battle Against Flesh-Eating Worms
Inside the U.S. and Panama’s long-running collaboration to rid an entire continent of a deadly disease
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AI trained on a baby’s experiences yields clues to how we learn language
Using a headcam, scientists recorded the world from a baby’s point of view. Now they have trained AI with those recordings to probe how children learn language.
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Gift Article: 81 Things That Blew Our Minds in 2023
Where The Atlantic’s Science, Technology, and Health reporters found wonder this year
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Poison Gas Hints at Potential for Life on an Ocean Moon of Saturn
A researcher who has studied the icy world said “the prospects for the development of life are getting better and better on Enceladus.”
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Fans of Connections, rejoice! Rebooted classic sci-doc series returns with original host
Ars chats with host James Burke about his "connective" approach to science history.
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Why Vultures Might Just Be the Smartest Birds Above the Block
The birds are widely reviled for their carrion-eating ways. But an evolutionary history of scavenging has forged a creative, cunning and wide-ranging mind.
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Why Are Insects Drawn to Light? A Perennial Question Gets a New Answer.
A new study offers an alternative to earlier explanations for why moths and other bugs are attracted to artificial sources of illumination.
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Sleeping beauties: the evolutionary innovations that wait millions of years to come good
Some organisms truck along slowly for aeons before suddenly surging into dominance – and something similar often happens with human inventions, too. But why?
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Ready for launch: the mission to find alien life on Jupiter’s icy moons
The eight-year, £1.4bn voyage into deep space will explore the frozen oceans of Ganymede, Europa and Callisto
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Fighting Climate Change Was Costly. Now It’s Profitable.
Just how far can this climate momentum take us?
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The Climate Economy Is About to Explode
A new report suggests that the Inflation Reduction Act could be even bigger than Congress thinks.
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Fire ant rafts form because of the Cheerios effect, study concludes
Fire ants will change shape of the raft to reduce drag and adapt to fluid flows.
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An Excavation in the Sea Depths Recovers Hercules From the Afterlife
An ancient shipwreck off the coast of Greece is yielding secrets as an archaeological exploration project dives deeper. The effort relies on technological innovation.
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Killer Asteroids Are Hiding in Plain Sight. A New Tool Helps Spot Them.
Researchers have built an algorithm that can scan old astronomical images for unnoticed space rocks, helping to detect objects that could one day imperil Earth.
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The Smaller Bombs That Could Turn Ukraine Into a Nuclear War Zone
Military experts say a new generation of nuclear weapons has raised the risk that Mr. Putin might introduce less destructive atomic arms into the battlefields in and around Ukraine.
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Big Tech Is Pouring Nearly $1 Billion Into Carbon Removal
Companies including Google and Facebook are pouring more than $900 million into a nascent technology that’s essential to zeroing out emissions.
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The world’s oldest pants are a 3,000-year-old engineering marvel
Strong in some places and flexible in others, the pants were designed for horseback riding.
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How America Watches for a Nuclear Strike
Hundreds of satellites and spacecraft are keeping an eye on Russia’s nuclear forces from above. So far, they haven’t seen much to worry about.
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Radian announces plans to build one of the holy grails of spaceflight
"We all understand how difficult this is."
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The last great mystery of the mind: meet the people who have unusual – or non-existent – inner voices
Does your internal monologue play out on a television, in an attic, as a bickering Italian couple – or is it entirely, blissfully silent?
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The Truth Behind the Amazon Mystery Seeds
Why did so many Americans receive strange packages they didn’t think they’d ordered?
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Did a Cuttlefish Write This?
Octopuses and squid are full of cephalopod character. But more scientists are making the case that cuttlefish hold the key to unlocking evolutionary secrets about intelligence.
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