T. rex teeth reveal a body temperature of 36°C — nearly as warm as a human's
UCLA geochemists used dental thermometry on 66-million-year-old fossils, bolstering the case that the predator was warm-blooded.
Sep 20, 20261 views
Learning a Second Language May Keep the Aging Brain Sharper, Research Suggests
Research links bilingualism to greater cognitive reserve and later dementia symptoms, but scientists caution the evidence is far from a guarantee.
Sep 20, 20262 views
Fat Bear Week Returns With Its Biggest Bracket Ever as Alaska's Bears Bulk Up for Winter
Katmai's viral tournament expands to 16 contenders, with voting beginning September 22 and more cubs than rangers have seen in recent memory.
Sep 19, 20263 views
Astronomers Confirm Elias 2-24 b, the Youngest Planet Ever Seen — and It's Still Forming
A Jupiter-size world less than a million years old is orbiting far from its star, forcing theorists to rethink how giant planets are born.
Sep 17, 20264 views
Baltimore's Own Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman to Visit Ravens Game
NASA's Inspiration Tour brings the hometown astronaut and lunar flyby veteran to M&T Bank Stadium as part of a broader public outreach push.
Sep 17, 20262 views
Chimps Hand Down Tools to Their Young, Study Finds, in a Glimpse of Teaching in the Wild
A new paper in Frontiers in Psychology documents deliberate modeling and tool transfer by adult chimpanzees — often mothers — to their offspring.
Sep 16, 20263 views
NASA's International Observe the Moon Night Returns Sept. 19 With Artemis II in the Spotlight
From Goddard's visitor center to CU Boulder and small-town observatories, skywatchers worldwide will gather for the annual lunar celebration.
Sep 15, 20261 views
Fleabag and Baby Reindeer producer Francesca Moody: how to spot a hit? Don't look for one
At the Edinburgh Fringe, the theatre producer behind two of the decade's biggest stage-to-screen triumphs explains her instinct for what works.
Sep 14, 20262 views
Largest-ever survey of physicists finds no consensus on how the Universe works
A global poll of thousands of physicists reveals deep disagreement over cosmology and quantum gravity, even as new experiments sharpen the Hubble tension and challenge the simulation hypothesis.
Sep 13, 20263 views
Palestinian Writer Raja Shehadeh’s Diaries Secretly Moved to Scotland for Safekeeping
Fearing destruction, Palestinian writer Raja Shehadeh’s archive is secretly moved to Scotland — what Al Jazeera calls ‘an act of resistance.’
Sep 12, 20263 views