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What a Crab Sees Before It Gets Eaten by a Cuttlefish
Cuttlefish use visual tricks to avoid being eaten. New research shows how they deploy similar camouflage to bamboozle their prey.
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Trove of Ancient Axes Shows Early Humans Made Tools From Bones
Deep in a trench in Tanzania, researchers found dozens of tools crafted from animal bones some 1.5 million years old.
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CreditCSIC Vesuvius Erupted, but When Exactly?
Two thousand years on, scholars still don’t agree on the day the destruction of Pompeii began. Two new studies only fan the fire.
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CreditWorld History Archive/Alamy How Fungi Move Among Us
Underground fungal networks are “living algorithms” that quietly help regulate Earth’s climate. Now scientists know what makes them so efficient.
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It’s Like Virtual Reality Goggles for Your Mouth
Scientists tested a device that helped volunteers taste flavors meant to represent distant samples of coffee, lemonade, fried eggs, cake and fish soup.
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CreditChen et al., Sci. Adv. 11, eadr4797 (2025) TrilobitesTea Leaves Can Steep Away Lead, Study Finds
Researchers found that compounds in black and green tea leaves acted like “little Velcro” hooks on lead molecules.
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CreditVinayak P. Dravid Group/Northwestern University Vesuvius Turned One Victim’s Brain to Glass
Heat from the eruption in A.D. 79 was so intense that it vitrified the brain tissue of one unfortunate Herculaneum resident, a new study confirms.
CreditPier Paolo Petrone ‘Moon Dust on Our Boots’: Texas Company’s Blue Ghost Lands on Lunar Surface
Firefly Aerospace’s robotic vehicle became the second privately built spacecraft to make a soft landing on the moon. It could soon be joined by two more private lunar landers.
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CreditFirefly Aerospace, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images SpaceX Scrubs 8th Starship Rocket Test Flight
The company has made changes to the vehicle, part of which blew up over the Caribbean in January during the seventh test flight. An issue during the countdown halted Monday’s launch.
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More in Origins ›Early Humans Thrived in Rainforests
The discovery clashes with the traditional image of humans evolving on the savannas of East Africa.
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CreditJoanna Lisowiec The Gene That Made Mice Squeak Strangely
A new study suggests that the NOVA1 gene may have been a key player in the evolution of human language.
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CreditDarnell Laboratory, via The Rockefeller University Ancient DNA Points to Origins of Indo-European Language
A new study claims to have identified the first speakers of Indo-European language, which gave rise to English, Sanskrit and hundreds of others.
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CreditHarvard Medical School Lurking Inside an Asteroid: Life’s Ingredients
Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that shed light on how life arose.
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CreditNASA Oldest Human Genomes Reveal How a Small Group Burst Out of Africa
DNA from European fossils dating back 45,000 years offers new clues to how our species spread across the world.
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More in Trilobites ›Hummingbirds Living in a Hive Found for the First Time
In a remote mountain cave in Ecuador, hummingbirds were discovered sleeping and nesting together.
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CreditDusan Brinkhuizen Lasers, Waffle Fries and the Secrets in Pterosaurs’ Tails
Scientists identified new structures in the tail vanes of the prehistoric flying reptiles.
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CreditNatalia Jagielska This City’s Sewer System Is Full of Alligators, but It’s Not New York
Researchers found crocodilians, bats, raccoons and other creatures prowling a Florida town’s storm drains, “like something out of ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,’” one said.
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CreditAlan Ivory, via UF/IFAS Birds of Paradise Glow on Mating Parade
The always colorful males light up with biofluorescence, sending off signals.
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CreditRene Martin/American Museum of Natural History Scared of Spiders? Also Scared of Zombies? We Have Some Bad News.
A BBC documentary crew in Northern Ireland stumbled upon a fungus that hijacks spiders in an arachnid version of “The Last of Us.”
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More in Climate and Environment ›Cuts Could Close Campsites and Trails in California, Forest Service Memo Says
A government spreadsheet lists thousands of campsites and trails that could shutter for the summer because of federal government staff reductions and budget freezes.
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CreditBridget Bennett for The New York Times U.S. State Department Shuts Down Pollution Monitoring Abroad
Since 2008, embassies and other diplomatic posts had been publishing data about local air quality. In many countries, it was the only reliable source of such information.
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CreditBay Ismoyo/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Trump Administration Said to Drop Lawsuit Over Toxic Chemical
The Biden administration had sued to force the Denka Performance Elastomer plant in Louisiana to reduce emissions of chloroprene, a likely carcinogen.
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CreditGerald Herbert/Associated Press Rising Temperatures Are Scrambling the Base of the Ocean Food Web
Scientists are gaining new insights into how plankton supports life on Earth — just as climate change is changing everything.
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CreditBilly Hickey for The New York Times Hit by Wildfire? Here’s How to Deal With Insurers and FEMA.
You don’t need to settle for what your insurance company or the government first offers. And you don’t have to fight alone.
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Weight Loss Drug Will Be Offered for $499 a Month for Some Patients
Some commercially insured patients stand to save $150 per month on Wegovy, a popular obesity medication. Patients on Medicare and Medicaid are not eligible.
By Rebecca Robbins
Aging Women’s Brain Mysteries Are Tested in Trio of Studies
Researchers identified a gene that seems to help slow brain aging in women, and studied links between hormone therapy, menopause and Alzheimer’s.
By Gina Kolata
Women With Postpartum Depression Experienced Brain Changes During Pregnancy, Study Finds
The research constitutes some of the first evidence that the condition is associated with modifications in the brain before childbirth.
By Pam Belluck
Florida Seeks Drug Prescription Data With Names of Patients and Doctors
The state’s insurance regulator has demanded detailed information about patients and their medications, raising privacy concerns.
By Reed Abelson and Rebecca Robbins
150 Years of Change: How Old Photos, Recaptured, Reveal a Shifting Climate
In the heart of Utah’s Uinta Mountains, a team of scientists is re-creating historical pictures to study how much, and how quickly, ecosystems are changing.
By Kim Beil
Climate Groups Were Counting on $20 Billion. Trump Won’t Let Them Access It.
The Justice Department and F.B.I. are investigating $20 billion in climate funds, despite a top prosecutor’s decision that there was not sufficient evidence of wrongdoing.
By Lisa Friedman, Claire Brown and Charlie Savage
As Measles Spreads, Kennedy Embraces Remedies Like Cod Liver Oil
In an interview, the H.H.S. secretary claimed that unconventional treatments were helping patients but described vaccination as a personal choice.
By Teddy Rosenbluth
Wild Coast Raw Food for Cats Is Recalled Over Bird Flu Risk
At least two cats kept as pets had tested positive for bird flu in two counties in Washington State after their owners reported feeding them the product, officials said.
By Johnny Diaz
World’s Largest Iceberg Runs Aground
A massive superberg, four times as big as New York City, has halted east of the southern tip of South America.
By Victor Mather
He Fought Claims of Harm From Infant Formula. Now He Regulates It.
Kyle Diamantas, a former corporate lawyer, is the new director for the F.D.A. food division, which oversees infant formula. He defended a top maker in cases claiming the company had not warned of potential risks to very low-weight babies.
By Christina Jewett
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