- by Diana KwonPeople’s minds sometimes wander to their bodily sensations, which may reduce symptoms of depression and ADHD, a new study suggests.
- by Aimee CunninghamIn Chiles v. Salazar, the court ruled that a therapist has First Amendment protections. That could impact how talk therapy is regulated.
- by Emily ConoverMathematician Richard Elwes surveys googology, the study of enormous numbers, in a new book.
- by Jake BuehlerHundreds of Chinese fossils from the dawn of animal evolution may change how scientists think of this critical period of prehistory.
- by Elie DolginTree-climbing cicadas find their perches by looking for patches of darkness, a strategy known as skototaxis.
- by Rebecca DzombakA study of ancient artifacts suggests Native American dice games began thousands of years earlier than previously documented.
- by Nikk OgasaNASA’s Artemis II astronauts are on their way to the moon, testing the Orion spacecraft for future lunar landings and a planned moon base.
- by Elie DolginHeart replicas helped doctors spot good targets for ablation in 10 patients. Months later, all of them are free of sustained faulty rhythms.
- by Tom MetcalfeA Utah fossil shows early relatives of spiders and scorpions already had distinctive front claws 500 million years ago.
- by Emily ConoverQuantum computers based on atoms could provide access to encrypted data much sooner than scientists thought.
- by Sujata GuptaConservative pronatalists want a return to the traditional nuclear family. But that family structure is at odds with how humans evolved.
- by Nikk OgasaGases jetting out of Comet 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresák may have caused it to reverse its spin in 2017, possibly leading to its eventual destruction.
- by Erin Garcia de JesúsA new documentary available on Disney+ and Hulu appeals to our sense of wonder to highlight why bees need saving.
- by Carolyn GramlingThe tiny seismic signals of rainwater moving through the ground show how heavy tilling damage soil.
- by Emily ConoverThe concept of entanglement links far-flung particles. That relationship can prove that someone is in the location they claim to be.
- by Rohini SubrahmanyamLimbless tree snakes can lift most of their body into the air without toppling. They manage this by focusing all their bending forces at their base.
- by Kathryn HulickAI agents are starting to work in teams, but without careful organization, groups of bots can easily fall into chaos.
- by Jay BennettFound in an ultrafaint dwarf galaxy, the ancient star’s unusual chemistry indicates it formed from gas enriched by a single early supernova.
- by Lily BurtonIn a sperm whale birth recorded in more intimate detail than ever before, local whales huddled around the mother and lifted the calf to the surface.
- by Jake BuehlerFossil jaw remains found in Egypt suggest that the earliest modern apes evolved in North Africa, not in East Africa where most fossils have been found.
