1+ hour, 57+ min ago  (737+ words) If you're trying to listen carefully to something, it might be better to keep your eyes open. This surprising finding goes against instinct and conventional wisdom, which suggests closing your eyes shuts out distractions and 'sharpens' your other senses. A…...

5+ hour, 57+ min ago  (817+ words) Have you ever tasted a word, or seen colors while listening to music? If you have, you may be among the 1% to 4% of people who have a fascinating trait known as synaesthesia. Synaesthesia is a neurological phenomenon where the activation…...

7+ hour, 56+ min ago  (728+ words) Common human painkillers significantly change the way Norway lobsters respond to an unpleasant stimulus, scientists have found. Administering an analgesic drug to Nephrops norvegicus lobsters before delivering a mild electric shock reduced the amount of tail flipping " an escape behavior…...

18+ hour, 57+ min ago  (945+ words) Tiny organisms on the ground " bacteria and fungi " have a "superpower" that allows them to reach up into the atmosphere and pull down the rain, according to a recent study. To understand how a microbe can control a storm, we…...

22+ hour, 57+ min ago  (551+ words) We can now confirm that a sunspot belching out a solar flare is at least as unnerving to listen to as it is to watch. In a video recorded in March 2026, backyard astronomer Dude Loves Space fortuitously captured an active…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (835+ words) The growth of the human population has not always been a smooth ride, but has been punctuated by some strange fluctuations. At multiple points in our history, populations have dramatically imploded. One such period occurred during the Neolithic, around 5, 000 years…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago  (876+ words) As a researcher investigating how electric brain stimulation can improve people's powers of recollection, I'm often asked how memory works " and what we can do to use it more effectively. Happily, decades of research have given us some clear answers…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago  (539+ words) Harvestmen are some of the weirdest-looking arachnids to roam this Earth, and they've been doing so for millions of years. A particularly wacky new species has now been found in two separate 35-million-year-old amber specimens from Ukraine and the Baltic…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago  (425+ words) This week in science: injections of an experimental drug show promise in repairing damaged cartilage in joints; an intriguingly human-like pattern found in whale communication; the most pure star ever detected; and much more! Injecting a slow-release drug into joints…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago  (809+ words) In 1902, British explorer Robert Falcon Scott spotted a large group of large black and white birds at Ross Island, Antarctica. This was among the many milestones of Scott's famous Discovery expedition: the first breeding colony of emperor penguins. Now, only…...