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A Moment of Science — 1000 episodes
Porcupine Quills
Math Is Not a Language
Rototillers of the Rockies
Dry Skin
A Flightless Bird Family Tree
The Coral Clock
Finches Categorize Colors
Carbon Pollution in Antarctica
Dusky Dottyback Fish Go Undercover
The Bubble That Lasted a Whole Year
Losing Your Tail, Saving Your Genes
The Fourth State of Matter
How Orb-weaving Spiders Build Their Webs
I Yawn, My Dog Yawns
How Blind and Sighted People Understand Color
Ghost in the Lab
How Aspirin Got Its Name
Paleontology Bone Wars
Tasteless Penguins
Butterwort: Ruthless Carnivore
A Beginner's Guide to CERN
A Beginner's Guide to CERN
Dogs at Work
Poison Dart Frogs Can't Poison Themselves
How Humphrey Davy Discovered Nitrous Oxide
The Fish Whose Blood Isn't Red
Don't Pet That Honey Badger
Waking Up Feeling Sleepy
The Millipede That Really Does Have 1,000 Feet
Animal Coloration
Volcanoes Warm, Then Cool the Earth
Horns vs. Antlers
What Is Wax, Anyway?
A Cottonwood, a Beaver, and a Beetle
The Heat Death of the Universe
Batesian Mimicry in Snakes
Batesian Mimicry
When Pigs Fly: Hope for Heart Patients in Designed Swine
How Do You Get Those Big Muscles
Apple Pie Science
In Nature Sometimes Size Matters
The Other Obesity Epidemic
Salmon That Move Mountains
Redefining the Kilogram
The Light of Spring
How to Find a "Super Tree"
Zero Gravity, Does It Exist?
An Arsenic Green Wallpaper to Dye For
Cannibal Caterpillars
Soap Bubbles and Butterfly Wings
World's Largest Colony of Fish Nests
Big Mouth, Big Bite
The Sun Stands Out Amidst Solar Twins
The Largest Bird to Ever Live
Dementor Wasps Are Strange and Fascinating
Can We Cure Paralysis?
The Importance of White Paint for Airplanes
Dino Eat Dino?
Kidnapped Sea Snails
Mapping Wildfires
Why the Mountain Beaver's Brain Didn't Get Bigger When It Did
Traces of Life in the World's Oldest Rubies
The Hair of the Caterpillar
Shining Light on Our Understanding of the Sun
How Technology Created the Mid-Atlantic Accent
What Makes Human Brains Different?
Bat Jammers
Earth's Worst Day
Fast-Evolving Fish
Where Does Candle Wax Go?
The Case of the Flying Manhole Covers
Pecking Order and the Bird Feeder
Monkey to Man
Aphantasiacs and Hyperphantasiacs
Finding an Egg's Secret Formula
Why Does My Arm Hurt after a Flu Shot?
Why Did Tail Weaponry Go the Way of the Dinosaurs?
Bird Song Apps
Why Do You Like That Toy?
Snake Mimicry
The ("Real") Science of Frankenstein
The Fiery Sting of a Fire Ant
Why Did Human Brains Decrease in Size?
Sponges: Stranger Than Science Fiction
Simple and Complex Carbs
Crocs Eating Rocks
“Fat-Free” Foods
Do Birds Hear Tsunamis and Hurricanes?
The Elastic Ruler
Bright Colors Mean Less Harassment for Hummingbirds
Describing Smells
Ancient Lunar Lava
Appalachian Bend
Mammals Living in Cities
What's in a Shape
Older Dinosaur Herds
George Washington Comes Out Right Side Up
Whiskers, the Shameless Freeloader
Hurricane Damage That Lasts
Is Earth Getting Dimmer?
Juiced Up
The Elusive Beaked Whale
14,400-year-old Bread
Too Warm or Too Cold to Fly
Eye Movements and Personality
Shark Tourism
Can Lightning Strike You in the Shower?
Moth Wingtips Confuse Bat Radar
Elephants Smelling Far Away Food
Modern Biology in a Monastery Garden
Why Rivers Don't Flow in Straight Lines
How Hummingbirds Use Their Sense of Smell
Another Good Reason to Go for Thai Food
The Leafy Seadragon is a Master of Camouflage
The Cloning and Quaking Stand of Aspen
Changing Shape to Cope with Climate Change
The Simple Science Behind One-Way Glass
Having More Friends Means More Offspring for Male Chimps
The Twin Within
The Ant with Metal in Its Mandibles
Curious Babies
Why Do Salmon Leap?
Moon Tan?
Fruit Flies are Social Butterflies
Singing Mice
The Wonderful Welwitschia
A Bug's Gotta Have Heart
Sleep and Inequality in the U.S.
Travelers' Diarrhea Has a Type
Rattlesnake Rattling Trick
Why Does It Seem Like Others Look Angry to You?
Marine Biofluorescence
Would You Eat Fruit That Smells Like Garbage?
The Great Unconformity
Imagining Yourself in Others
Stinky Cheese
U.S. Islands and Migratory Animals
Gut Microbes and Brain Rejuvenation
Is That Bug Really a Bug?
Handwriting and Learning to Read
Crunchy, Indigestible Goodness
How does sound travel on Mars?
Safe Sex for Moths
Fluorescent Green Wasp Nests
Memory and Reasoning
Lakes on Mars, or a radar mirage?
Otoacoustic Emissions
Urban vs. Rural Birds
Flatline? Shockingly, No.
Chimps Drink Alcohol, Too
Why Do We Need to Sleep?
Nothing New under the Sun
Some Penguins Love Climate Change
That’s No Snowman—It’s a Crab!
Healthier to Give Than to Receive
How Do Whales Learn Music?
The Lingering Ice Age
Only Three Percent of Earth's Land is Intact
Contagious Cognitive Vulnerability
When Experiments Fail to Replicate
Pirate Perch
Imagining and Seeing
Electrical Near death Experience
Saccadic Suppression
Macrauchenia
Depressing Night Work
Venutian Volcanoes
Why the Brain Has So Many Folds
Mistletoe's Missing Genes
"Never" Events
Fish on Drugs
Facebook and Loneliness
A Remedy for the Runs
The Rest is Gravy
Birds of a Feather Flock Together
Liquid Sunshine
Wanted: Yellowstone Beavers
Lights, Music, Calories
The Future of Bananas
When It's Worth It to Be Awake
Express Anger, Lower Blood Pressure
Superb Fairy-wrens Learn to Eavesdrop
Real Lightsabers?
Adapting to Starvation
Changing the Gene with Meditation
Diet Soda Depression
Dehydration
Why Toddlers Can't Learn from a Screen
High Altitude Genes
Cold Nose Cows
The Giant Weta Weighs In
The Genetics of the Hangover
Zombie Plants
A Change in the Air
Spider Silk
Estrogen and Breathing
Loud Dolphins
Lighter Than Air
Fail 15% of the Time to Learn Best
Stand Up, Be More Creative?
Scared of Snakes?
Painful Math
A Million Years in the Dark: The World of the Mexican Blind Cavefish
The Smell of Anxiety
Myopic Misery
Sometimes It's Good to Be Second Best
When Forgetfulness Comes in Handy
Those Who Don't Like Music
Small Testicles, Better Fathers?
Why Humans--but Not Chimps--Get Cancer
Bear-crossed Lovers
The Butterwort: Ruthless Carnivore of the World
Working Overtime
Imaginary Eating
A Brief History of "High-fidelity" Sound
Can Tooth Fillings Pick Up Radio Signals?
Why We Can't Walk Through Walls
Fearing the Dentist
Roots of Nausea
Selfish Sheep
How Yoga Reduces Stress
Bacteria Portrait Sessions
The Ultraviolet Coloring of Flowers
The Remains of a Cambrian Dinner
"It Takes a Village"
When You Get an Itch...
Zebra Stripes
Lake Vostok
Plate Tectonics on Mars
Amazing Roaches
Wetland bacteria, methane, and global climate change
Colorful Giant Penguins
Why More Variety in Nature’s ‘Grocery Store’ Helps Species Coexist
Becoming Part of the Music
Glacier "Sawdust"
Depression and the Immune System
Comfy Mice, Better Science
Hunting and Drawing
Invisible plant-microbe friendships and how they expand the plant niche
The Emotional Oracle Effect
Bog Bodies
Llama Dung
Singing Toadfish
Tiny Pollution Detectors
The Partitioning of the Pollinator
White Nose Syndrome Mystery
A Cool Particle
Migraines and Exercise
Crocodiles Swam the Atlantic
Ancient Disease Resistance
Fast brain waves provide new insights into sleep and wakefulness
Poisonous Rats
Sleeping with Pets
Bomb-Sniffing Plants
The Loudest Animal on Earth
Why and When Did Mammals Start Producing Milk?
Eavesdropping Bats Learn to Recognize a Good Meal
Dogs at Work
The Social Web of Bullying
Is it OK to Drink Urine?
Why Can’t We Remember Being Babies?
Getting Fat at Work
Beet Juice and Dementia
Bird Hormones Mirror Life Strategies
A Creature From Hell: Earth's Oldest Ant
Stimulating Math
The Long March
Discovering a New Organ: the Interstitium
Solve for Tomorrow: High School Inventions
Doodling for Memory
Genetically-Modified Food
How Tropical Hummingbird Chicks Scare Predators Away
Just Say Neigh
Vitamins. What's Too Much?
Broken Heart Syndrome
You'd Look Stunning in Infrared
Is there life on K2 18b?
Why Clones Ain't Copies
Clones Ain't Copies
Meeting Your Future (Virtual) Self
How We Know That Humpty Dumpty Wasn't a Cat
Bad Vibrations
Smelling in Stereo
Let'r Rip
A Moment of Silence
Is It Possible To Be "Bored To Death?"
Visitors From Alpha Centauri
Teenage Marijuana Use May Lead To Psychotic Symptoms In The Future
Australopithecus africanus: Your (Mostly) Vegetarian Relative
What Causes Morning Breath?
The Ancient Cannibals of Maszycka Cave
Why Are Siamese Cats Cross-Eyed?
Right Brain, Left Face
Why Do Teens Make Dumb Decisions
The Creature with an Extra Brain
Eary Mammals Probably Had Dark Coats
Counting Fish
The Benefits of Bullying
How Baleen Whales Hide Their Songs from Predators
Diver Up
Diver Down
Meet the Mola: A Fish the Size of Your Car
New Elephant Species
Happy Memories
The Cuckoo's Secret
Exercising While under the Weather
How Casino Design Influences Gamblers’ Minds and Wallet
Do Flying Fish Really Fly?
Snoring and Metabolic Syndrome
The Oldest Fossil Tadpoles
Being Top Banana, a Double-edged Sword
The Asteroid That Made NASA Worry
Knowing Which Way the Wind Blows
Snacking Dos and Don'ts
Can't Sleep? Warm Your Hands
Are You Hopping on the Bandwagon?
All This Carbon Dioxide Is Making Me Hungry
Baby Babble
The Powerful Punch of the Mantis Shrimp
The Mystery of Belly Button Fluff
The Psychology of Gift Wrap
We Want Smut
The Habitable Zone
Musical Healing
Why Are Bird Eggs Speckled?
For a Long Life, Is It Better to Focus on Fitness or Fatness?
The Great Eel Escape
The Queen Bee Brainwash
Invasion Can Be Hard on the Invaders, Too
Vanishing Vanilla
Chirping Tails
Ringed Seals on the Hotseat
And You Thought Your Neighbors Were Annoying
Early Americans Ate Mammoth Meat
Squirrels Who Eat Snakeskin?
Ocean Heat
Pythons Will Eat Your Alligators
The Cyclopean Ear
No Gills, No Problems
Baby Talk in Monkeys and Humans
How Do Robins Find Worms?
Don't Dwell! Avoid Ruminating
A Baby's Smile
Beetle Poop for Wildfire Recovery
Uh Oh! Moles!
The Magic of Glycerin
Smiling Voices
Honeybees in Winter
Collapse of the Conger Ice Shelf
Ant Ranchers and Caterpillars
Sticky and Deadly
The Regenerative Power of Worms
Shade Avoidance Syndrome (SAS)
Ancient Travelers
Calm Old Age
Mapping the Fruit Fly's Brain
The Physics of Water Towers
African Elephants and Climate Change
Red Meat and Global Warming
The Magic of Cenotes
Self-destructing Palm
How Animals Improve Mental Health
Females Prefer More Exotic Males?
What Makes Alcohol Denatured?
Learning about Autism One Yawn at a Time
These Giraffes Are Missing Their Spots
Fire Beetles
Welcome to the Anthropocene
Moose, Bears, and Traffic
That's Nuts
More Salt, Higher Blood Pressure
From the Mouths of Squid
Red Tide
Restoring the Brain's Waste Disposal System
Viruses May Help Invasive Plants Conquer New Ranges
Pregnant Teenage Dinosaurs
Fish, Fish, the Musical Fish
Humaniqueness
Guarding Grains
Bird's Nannies
Potential Danger Lurking in Leftovers
Chirpless Crickets?
Seed Banks
Compulsively Cluttered
Learning a Language
Aphids and Brussel Sprouts
Foxy Smell in the Garden
The Camera's Eye
Why Feel Guilty?
The Grandmother Hypothesis
Bright Stripes Keep a Coral Reef Fish Well-Camouflaged
Plant "Chat Lines"
Oil Paintings: Here Today, But What About Tomorrow?
Mmmm! Leptin
Dragon Pushups
Puddings and Custards Turned to a Soupy Mess?
Polarizing Sunglasses
Dust to Dust
Flip a Coin, Beat the Odds
Thirsty? Try Drinking Through Your Skin
George Washington Comes Out Right Side Up
Student Protest on a Physics Exam
The Curve of a Meandering River
Sperm Meets Egg: Finding Out What Really Happens
Stereotype Threat
Sea Robins: The Fish That Taste with Their Legs
Brown Apples & Brown Tea
The Wrong Formula for Water
The Tastebuds of Blind Cavefish
The Trouble With Drinking Blood
Skidding Downhill
Why You Can Never Get to the End of a Rainbow
Freezing Hot Water Pipes
Traveler's Diarrhea Has a Type
The Storm-Chasing Seabird
Why Does It Seem Like Others Are Angry With You
Lonely Fruit Flies
These Neurons Tell The Brain To Sneeze
Why Fan Blades Stay Dirty
Is It Ever Too Warm To Snow?
Is It Ever Too Cold To Snow?
Geese Domestication May Be 7,000 Years
Moth Wingtips Confuse Bat Sonar
Extreme Heat Causes Railroads to Bend
Rattlesnake Rattling Trick
Affair of the Heart
Finding an Egg's Secret Formula
Australopithecus Sediba, Your Ancient Relative
Dino Eat Dino? Not for T. Rex and Stegosaurus
How Blind and Sighted People Understand Color
The Spade-toothed Beaked Whale
A Flightless Bird Family Tree
What Is Wax, Anyway
The Largest Bird to Ever Live
The Great Unconformity
Shark Tourism
Handwriting and Learning to Read
How Spiders Lure Fireflies to Their Doom
A Comb, a Sock, a Faucet
Aerobic Exercise affects Mental Performance
When Pop Bottles DO Blow Up
Underwater Money
The Rising Water Mystery
Mona Lisa's Smile: Now You See It, Now You Don't
Pop Quiz on Memory
Retrieve That Dream
Pump You Up, Break You Down
Winter Wheat
Why Mice and Rats Are Used in Research
Nostrils and Roses
Say Cheese!
Females Prefer Long Snoods
Keep Your Fat End Up
With a Huff and a Puff, Volcanoes Produce Smoke Rings
Cold Heart, Warm Hands
Swim Like A Fish
Charming Fahrenheit
Bradycardia
When Grey Goo Attacks!
Carnivorous Bees
Sometime Cavemen
Soft, Stretchy Batteries
The Amazing Flash Illusion
Rejection Leads to Agression
What is a Hypnotic?
Where Are the Giant Spiders?
A Treadmill for the Mind
Acanthostega
Science Joke
Dr. Mori's Uncanny Valley
Dad called Dibs: First Pick for Feasting
Good Reef!
Blue Lobsters
Pine Processionary Caterpillars
Body Dysmorphic Disorder
Cats Who Flex
Cows have their own personal preferences
Are you recollecting or reconstructing?
Camouflage isn't perfect
A trip to the beach with Earth's largest marine reptile
Our brains and confirmation bias
You've gotta have hearts
Take a look at that: The eyes of the Opiliones
What not to do with your microwave
Eggcellent equipment, eggcellent results
What are anacondas really like?
Working memory and math anxiety
Are dragon myths based in reality?
'Cause I eats me spinach
Hyenas once stalked the Arctic
Anecdotes vs statistics: Who do you believe?
What makes our ears pop?
That's no plum: Meet the purple tomato
When a sweet tooth meets a numb tongue
The giant penguin discovered on a field trip
The false underwater city of Zakynthos
Scales, feathers, and fur, oh my!
Do dogs know the names of their favorite toys?
What happens when good bananas go bad
Why does Diet Coke float?
Cue the laugh track: Why hyenas giggle and guffaw
Packing for your desert trip
Does soda rot your teeth?
What's it like on Mercury?
Why don't adults get ear aches?
Is there an easy way to make diamonds?
Can zebras be domesticated?
When grey goo attacks
Hungry porpoises may find dinner at hole foods
Pigeons have their own superstitions
How do clouds float?
The phenomenon of long colds
Do ants drown every time it rains?
Which came first: the woodpecker or the fungus?
The benefits of a walkable neighborhood
Stay balanced with your center of gravity
You have a bacterial cloud following you around
Growing up with your taste preferences
What makes you see the man in the moon?
What's the autokinetic effect?
Skydiving spiders in the Amazon
Even rats can be pessimistic
New Caledonian crows can infer weight
Why do our eyes get puffy when we cry?
Immune cells and the struggle against aging
Color-changing monkeys
The spider that gives milk
Queen of the drowned: Bumblebees that can survive a week underwater
Climate change is making insects eat more crops
Brick by magnetic brick
Pandas always know what's for dinner
Emotion differentiation makes you less angry
An amphibian mother feeds her offspring with 'milk'
Cultured fruit flies
The ocean's fish need more clean water
Putting science on display at the Great Exhibition of 1851
Optics and glue
Would you drink this?
Schools of fish are silent swimmers
Orangutans talk about the past
Making an egg-cellent cake
Giving a gull a break
It's not just the heat, it's the humidity
Coprophagy keeps birds healthy
How to see what soap does to water
Your friendly Amazonian slingshot spider
Reflecting on how others see you
The fault that runs through Scotland
Why does cotton wrinkle?
A tarantula with the blues
When is yellow really yellow?
Male mammals aren't always bigger than females
Robert Hook found a surprise in cork
A summer night mystery: heat lightning
Why one rotten apple can spoil the barrel
Speedy snails
Rediscovered in a museum drawer
The fruit that grows on trees, literally
What makes dreams so hard to remember?
Otter heroes with a secret mission
What animals will thrive in the next century?
Parenting styles and telomeres
Saved by the boil
Why are glass bottles different colors?
The future of New Zealand's birds
A matter of preference
Humans aren't unique when it comes to fingerprints
The starch difference
How do our organs heal themselves?
Benjamin Franklin and his fabric swatches in the snow
Extremophiles go to the ends of the Earth and thrive there
Colors and their opposites, with paint
Why do people grunt when playing tennis?
Could being a dog person be in your genes?
Graphene and faster computer chips
Where the sky isn't blue
What makes the sky blue?
Temperature: A key variable in making the perfect cup of coffee
A rattlesnake's rattling trick
Cud-chewing monkeys
Rain in this desert is deadly
What inspired the Lorax?
"Terror beasts" of the early Cambrian
How do mosquitoes find us?
Rain on the rear window
A giant bee, rediscovered
Do you start your day with tea or coffee?
When every day is opposite day for your organs
Why do square waves happen?
Humans have been hanging out with cats for almost 10,000 years
Prehistoric air conditioning
Genetic mutation and pain
Walking uphill is hard work
Walking uphill is hard work
Why do giraffes need such long necks?
How mosquitoes will be impacted by global warming
The unique species of the tufted deer
Virtual reality and yawning
Not all antioxidants are the same
Moths use acoustic camouflage
Why do humans like coffee?
What makes swatting a fly so hard?
The mysteries of Oumuamua
Red cone, green cone
Tsunamis in the oceans of Mars
Fighting back against root rot
In the atmosphere, microbes are walking on air
The ant with moves like a cheetah
Background noise and sleep quality
Different rates of sea level rise
Ant doctors
How your attitude affects your body
Can animals tell time?
Could The Gulf Stream collapse?
Ice age plant survived the big chill
Every time you eat a fig, remember a fig wasp lost its wings
Study links air pollution and a decline in cognitive function
The jellyfish that never grows old
The great cilantro debate
Elephant grandmothers means more elephant calves
Looks delicious! The connection between appearance and taste
Escaping alive from a frog's stomach
Copy your neighbors, but only when they're successful
Why are operating rooms so cold?
Starfish are all heads, no tails
Skeptics think about vaccines differently
Walked or swam? An index can answer
Play and the brain
What we can learn from ancient climate records
Tetrataenite as a solution to the rare earth crisis
The effects of bismuth in Pepto Bismol
King Tut's dagger from space
Where does bitterness come from? Ask the sharks
Remembering the past, as a baby
Why are sunrises faster than sunsets?
The temperature of ice on a hot day
Do brains differ with biology?
Mauveine: The first synthetic dye
Can plants hear?
Patient HM: Henry Molaison and the neuroscience of memory
Monkeys can be petty, too
Snowshoes and physics
Dogs can recognize their own species
Being able to stomach bugs
Are eyes evolving?
The proteins in dinosaur feathers
UFO attack or meteor fragments?
Beans get their flavor from yeast
Solving a new problem with an old remedy
Think like a penguin: Finding your niche
Going for a spin and getting dizzy
The risk astronauts take with the Sun
Are you a tick magnet?
What are contrails?
How does carbon dioxide impact our ability to think?
Dinosaurs may have had malaria
Murphy's breakfast never goes to plan
Bacteria feel full, too
How the motor cortex treats words
What a steel!
Cafeteria plate dispensers reveal facts about atoms
Is it ok to swallow watermelon seeds?
What exactly was Little Miss Muffet eating?
Vampire bats are good at sharing
Testing your reaction time
Why don't elephants get cancer?
What events actually make us happy?
Desert ants navigate with the magnetic field
Life thrives in the seabed of hydrothermal vents
Moths are evolving to avoid city lights
Recognizing different relatives
Jellyfish thrive in cold water, too
Mona Lisa's smile: now you see it, now you don't
Rethinking dopamine
The sensitivity of dog noses
The curious case of microbial invasion
What's the difference between hair and fur?
Bees have figured out some sweet, sweet math
Making a new mouth for every meal
DNA and RNA in a genetic museum
How cockroaches get away
Seeing color out of the corner of your eye
Tardigrades are even stranger than they appear
The mermaid, the witch, and climate change?
MRI, CT, and PET scans, oh my!
You are what you eat, even for extinct Caribbean rodents
Firefly flashes are mating signals
The ocean is changing color
What makes fluorescent colors so bright?
The importance of the magnetic field for life on Earth
Why are dogs such messy drinkers?
Wallabies in England?
Rats stay closer together in colder temperatures
Air pressure and drinking straws
Today's sturgeon is a blast from the past
Your skin's thermometer
Don't count out moths when it comes to pollination
Why would you drive a cockroach?
How do insects drink?
Healing damage from a heart attack
Does money bring happiness?
The yeast that was lost and found
Does trampling the lawn really harm the grass?
Stink bugs aren't all bad
Don't tie yourself in (muscle) knots
Gone fishing, virtually
Stressed out quails and their eggs
Social isolation and inflammation
There's plastic dust all over our national parks
Wishing on a meteor shower's shooting stars
How do apples get their shine?
Why do we get so enraged?
Chewers, crunchers, smooshers, and suckers. How do you eat?
How do aardvarks eat?
Were myths of unicorns based in reality?
Our closest relatives can plan ahead, too
Do you hear what I hear?
How much water is in that glass?
Changing a koala's stomach microbiome
Keep your magnets away from that meteorite
It's easy being green for the palo verde
The orchid with a distinctive body odor
We carry around our own bacterial clouds
How do camels avoid getting thirsty?
What do alcoholism and having a sweet tooth have in common?
Warming up with a nice cup of nectar
The hidden world inside lava caves
These caves were formed by lava
The sort-of giant cavefish of India
What causes heavy rain?
Swear words increase pain tolerance, but only "traditional" ones
The chemical that keeps swarming locusts from eating each other
Shakespearean words on the brain
The spa of the sea
The epidemiological consequences of climate change on mosquito niche range
A new layer of Earth's core
The importance of rediscovery and the nose-horned lizard
Fungi and plants have a complicated relationship status
Our voices match our gestures
The coywolf hybrid takes over the East coast
Do animals use math?
Variety is the texture of life
How grasshoppers are able to hang around upside-down
Having a eureka moment can cloud our judgement
Rats use special hairs to sense the wind
Bark used as ancient gum
Do carnivores care that we're here?
Corals' microbiomes are busy during dormancy
When psychology meets accounting
Gigantopithecus: Who were the relatives of Earth's largest ape?
How did dust cause an ancient ice age?
Sowing the seeds of future conservation
Bacteria on, in, and under your skin
Are we able to taste more?
Bungostegos: The lizard that walked upright on all fours
Pterosaurs: Earth's biggest fliers ever
The honeybee's royal jelly
How mangrove forests provide flood protection
Saber-toothed tigers were big. Really big
Stormy solar weather in our forecast
43,000 underwater volcanoes, and counting
Are flying fish really flying?
The invisible world of ancient manuscripts
Spider webs go way back
Self-sharpening sea urchin teeth
It's a miracle! The abilities of the agbayun berry
Some hairstyles can lead to traction alopecia
Not-so-total recall: Your brain and the Mandela Effect
Why soap and hard water don't mix
Cuttlefish seeing in three dimensions
Why you should thank NASA for rainy-day road safety
Brain activity related to consciousness in dying people
Cloudy vs clear apple juice: Which do you prefer?
How far south can you see the Aurora Borealis?
Using laziness as a survival strategy
Walk the walk with pedometers
Beluga whales: They're just like us!
Make your request in person, not over email
Best in mold: Japan's national fungus
The death-defying ginkgo
These strange bunnies eat strange fruit
The black hole at our galaxy's center
Feeling the waves even on shore
The lost underwater "city" off Zakynthos
Why do wind turbines have three blades?
What a view! Researching the "wow" factor
The one-time beauty of monocarpic plants
Why don't animals naturally have three legs?
Sediment ripples from a lake on ancient Mars
Sipping raindrops from snake scales
Older macaques with smaller social circles
The physics behind a knuckleball
Can't go to the Moon? Try Arizona instead
The dark-furred Amami rabbit
Zap! How electric eels create their shocks
Cooking with magnets
How does smoking a pipe impact your health?
Why does crying make your nose run?
Feedback loops and global climate change
Audiobooks vs. books in the brain
The lives of solitary bees
Why it's harder for toddlers to learn from a screen
Why we must recycle the rare earth metals
Do opossums actually hang by their tails?
What makes thick skin thick?
The perfect blast: The explosion of a kilonova
How stripes can save animals
Does stress actually cause grey hair?
Biological clocks of all kinds
Global climate change and the Greenland ice sheet
Less salt, same flavor?
The hummingbird bill is a multitool
Some like it hot, some like it even hotter
Why your eyes get puffy when you cry
Spilling the tea on hard water
What makes superglue so super
Should you sweat out a cold?
Since the dawn of humanity, fathers have always been older
Sea turtle moms plant decoy nests
Can tooth fillings pick up radio signals?
Wait to use mouthwash after you exercise
What's the difference between white and dark meat?
What is a virus?
Knowing where the wind blows
Your dog, to the rescue
How distinctive is your walk?
An ancient animal that grew up fast
Insects are a good source of antioxidants
Traveling with zoochory
The ocean is losing its oxygen
Our fossils of the future
Mammals live longer when they live in groups
Shedding microfibers, just from doing laundry
What makes hummingbird wings so pretty?
The future of bananas
Your dance moves are like a fingerprint
The family tree of arctic sled dogs
Why our recorded voices sound so different
Can moon dust shield us from the sun?
Trees that farm their own drought tolerance
An illusion in your coffee cup
Glass frogs turn translucent by hiding their blood
Eating more with loved ones
The toxic legacy of leaded gasoline
Camouflaging with iridescence
Sending a cube into space
Voiceless frogs can fall in love, too
Queen bees don't have it easy
How the voice humanizes information
The significance of mouthfeel
Modern bird beaks aren't so modern after all
Fish have their own dog days of summer
The brain and mapping your toes
How the spitting cobra spits
How to see ghosts with Pepper's ghost illusion
Frisky groundhogs in February
Keeping sweet corn sweet
Why is it so easy to break a coffee cup?
Are solar storms a threat to the internet?
Antarctica's biodiversity and penguin poop
The mysterious origins of the Macrauchenia
Caribou and their mighty migration
What is the Heisenberg uncertainty principle?
Flowers choose the best pollinators
Arthropods in your house
How does the windhover hover?
Grapefruit and your medication
Invasive species and tornadoes
The gun embodiment effect
Turning your world upside down
Less oxygen, stronger alligator hearts
The smooth wake from a ship
The oldest known eardrums
Tricking your muscles, with a door frame
Crows can choose if they want to call
The biggest earthquake humans ever experienced
The complexities of feeling hangry
Getting grounded, but keeping your wings
Don't sweat the small stuff with moisture-wicking fabric
Hills in the ocean
Pickle me this
The invasive jumping worm
Wet weather leads to brighter colors
Defending Earth: The impact threat
Leafhoppers might be fans of climate change
When did humans learn to cook?
The amazing regeneration of the axolotl
Working out and your arteries
You can see the forest and the trees
The curve of a meandering river
Internal compass helps guide fish home
How getting back on the horse can help
Your Pong opponent is a dish of brain cells
GPS can get a bit buggy
What is alien hand syndrome?
Why did T. rexes have tiny arms?
Why do we feel madly in love?
Cockroaches have personalities and make choices
Convection in your coffee cup
Planet of the ants
Bernoulli's hair dryer
Humans can echolocate, too
The Earth's core and the evolution of complex life
Did sanitation make Rome any healthier?
Same and different: Infants use analogies before they speak
Magpie egg hormones impact their offsprings' boldness
Warped spacial mapping
Why are parrots so smart?
Trust comes with old age
Flies that eat spiders
Mitchell's Satyr: On the brink of extinction
What makes blue ice?
The strange life of a pyrosome
Harsh winters are due to climate change
Crabgrass has a sneaky trick
Sound off: Humans have simpler throats than monkeys
To bee or not to bee
Laughing gas isn't a laughing matter
How many bees does a meadow need?
The ecological niche: Not just a hole in the wall
How do pets provide stress relief?
How vitamins got their name
The bloodsucking strategy of the vampire finch
Surgery in the Stone Age
No ant left behind
Mole rats lead pretty painless lives
Chewing up our daily energy
The next best thing to a yeti
Seafloor mapping and a melting glacier
The perfect pizza comes down to thermodynamics
The fascinating thievery of crows
The apple in your mind's eye
Yaks breathe easy, thanks to specialized cells
Cataracts and cloudy vision
Mindset and genes
Vanilla may one day come from plastic
The curious properties of corks
A tusked and tufted deer
Brain waves and social behavior
When the sky flashes green
Reflections in a spoon
The incredible walking sticks
Bubble trouble: How to calm a shaken can of soda
The significance of glass color
Dinosaurs in the snow
The science of sweetened condensed milk
Amazon's biodiversity enhanced by river movement
Making clouds in your kitchen
Sea turtles navigate by the magnetic field
The desert where rain is deadly
The impact of an underwater volcanic eruption
How temperature impacts the perfect cup of coffee
How long is a day on each planet in the solar system?
Rediscovered: The world's largest bee
Ancient settlements in the Amazon
The question of a rock and a rowboat
Vegetarian birds have more friends
Knowing your emotions can reduce anger
Ancient dogs got bigger to guard livestock
How rainbow weevils get their spots
Dinosaur snouts as air conditioning
Why are dogs so friendly towards humans?
Moths have their own acoustic camouflage
Some spots on the Moon are almost room temperature
Pain and genetic mutation
Hummingbirds, altitude, and global climate change
Why do we like coffee?
The "thieving magpie" stereotype isn't quite true
Solar power at night
Travel by warp bubble
Why is the dark side of the Moon so different?
Your shadow can have a halo
How plants make sure their pollen gets delivered to the right place
Ancient Egyptians and their cats
How to walk from the U.S. to Russia
The jabuticaba fruit literally grows on trees
Christmas beetles for dinner
Dependence on our smartphones
Plants passing down info to their offspring
Food and global climate change
Mosquitoes, disease, and global warming
Eroding topsoil troubles Midwest farms
How lavender relaxes us
Spiderman lives in the Amazon
How did people get ice before refrigeration?
Giraffes use nurseries, too
Extreme heat causes railroads to bend
Giant pandas and bamboo
Yawning in virtual reality
Eavesdropping for food
An inky ring in a glass of water
The power of grunting in tennis
The super abilities of bats
Making older skin young again
Discovered in a museum drawer: Simbakubwa kutokaafrika
Orangutans holler out their travel plans
Photographing a black hole
Methane from glaciers and volcanoes
Vinegar eels do the wave
Lying in a foreign language comes easier