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Crabs Can Learn to Navigate Mazes, Too
A new study highlights the cognitive abilities of an understudied animal
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Double-Sided Tape Inspired by Spiderwebs Could Revolutionize Surgery
The two-sided adhesive instantly dries tissue then creates a strong bond—in just 5 seconds
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Mosses Expand the Story of Ötzi the Iceman’s Final Journey
Seventy-five species of mosses and liverworts found in and around his body suggest he climbed the alps via a difficult gorge
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Hold On to Your Lederhosen: Oktoberfest Produces a Whole Lot of Methane Gas
Incomplete combustion from gas appliances is likely the major culprit
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Five Scientific Explanations for Spooky Sensations
What feels like a supernatural presence might actually be vibrations outside of humans’ conscious perception
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Babies May Understand Counting Before They Fully Understand Numbers
By tempting an adorable pool of subjects with toys, a new study found that infants associate counting with quantities
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These Newly Discovered Shrimp Call a Whale Shark’s Mouth Home
Found in a whale shark off Okinawa, hundred of amphipods were living it up in the giant fish’s gills
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John Nash’s Nobel Prize Sells for $735,000
Best known as the subject of “A Beautiful Mind,” Nash made pioneering advances in the study of game theory
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Text Messages Sent by Roaming Eagles Bankrupt Scientific Study
A steppe eagle named Min spent months out of range before reappearing in Iran and sending hundreds of expensive SMS texts
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Voracious Purple Sea Urchins Are Ravaging Kelp Forests on the West Coast
The trouble started in 2013, when sea stars, an urchin predator, began to die off
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Scientists Taught Rats to Drive Tiny Cars to Earn Froot Loops
What’s more, driving seemed to relax the rodents
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Why Did Thousands of Rubber Bands Show Up on an Uninhabited Cornish Island?
Nesting gulls have likely been trying to feed the bands found in nearby flower fields to their chicks for decades
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Behold This ‘Cosmic Yeti,’ a Monster Galaxy From the Beginning of Time
Astronomers recently spotted 12.5 billion-year-old light from the giant galaxy, which helps explains the evolution of the early universe
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Listen to the Shattering Call of the World’s Loudest Known Bird
The song of the white bellbird can reach 125 decibels, which rivals ‘the amplitude of a pile driver,’ says the author of a new study
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Space Farmers Could Grow Crops in Lunar and Martian Soil, Study Suggests
With a little added organic matter, dusty lunar and Martian soil simulants produced tomatoes, rye, radishes and other crops in the lab
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Trilobite Fossil Shows Animals Have Stood in Line for Hundreds of Millions of Years
A line of 480-million-year-old trilobites found in Morocco may be the earliest evidence of collective animal behavior
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See a Fox Spook a Marmot and More Award-Winning Wildlife Photographs
The London National History Museum’s 55th annual contest garnered more than 48,000 entries from 100 different countries
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Part of the Badlands Opens to Bison—for the First Time in 150 Years
A parcel of private land had previously stopped the animals from expanding their range in the Badlands National Park
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Take a Virtual Tour of a 17th-Century Shipwreck
A new VR experience lets users explore the “Melckmeyt” without diving into Iceland’s freezing waters
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To Find Baby Planets, Researchers Chase Waterfalls of Gas
Analysis of data from the ALMA telescope shows gas flows from the surface to middle of protoplanetary discs as new planets form
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