Quitting smoking even later in life can slow down cognitive decline and delay the onset of
A human’s best friend is a dog, but that’s not always reciprocated.
Some of our canine pets are colloquially called “ball junkies” because they have an addictive-like attitude toward their toys. They choose to play tug-of-war or fetch over…
Most spiders pose very little danger to humans, including the notorious noble false widow (Steatoda nobilis).
But the half-inch predator does punch surprisingly far above its weight. According to a 2023 study, for example, the noble false…
For the longest time, South America’s amber deposits lacked one thing, and one thing in particular, and that’s bugs.
But a September 2025 study in Communications Earth & Environment describes the first amber deposits from South America that…
Not long ago, there were reports comparing human attention spans unfavorably to those of a fish. It was claimed the average attention span for a goldfish was just nine seconds — a whole second longer than the average attention span for a…
For tens of thousands of years, ancient microbes have lain dormant in the Alaskan permafrost, stuck in a state of suspended animation much like characters in Sleeping Beauty.
Now, a team of geologists writing in JCR Biogeosciences has awoken…
In modern-day Italy, the closest you will get to an elephant is in a zoo. But 400,000 years ago, a large species of straight-tusked elephants roamed Europe — and an unlucky few ended up on the dinner plates of early humans.
Archeologists writing…
