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‘Was I awkward?’ What overthinking after a party has to do with your ‘lizard brain’

“Did they think I was annoying?” “Did I say something boring?” “Were they having fun?” These creeping, intrusive thoughts after having a conversation or attending a party are, psychologically, more than just a nuisance. These...

Nov 25, 2024

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Great apes may have cognitive foundations for language

How did Thanksgiving turkeys get so darn big?

Great Red What? Check out Jupiter’s giant, magnetic tornado

The oldest known firearm in the U.S. unearthed in Arizona

Stress is warping these fish brains

High-speed camera catches cucumber squirting seeds at 65 feet-per-second

NASA radar picks up frozen, buried Cold War base Camp Century

Focaccia likely originated in Mesopotamia, not Rome

‘Was I awkward?’ What overthinking after a party has to do with your ‘lizard brain’

What happens when you donate your body to science?

How does science explain déjà vu? It’s a brain glitch with a purpose.

New concept art shows how SpaceX’s Starship will transport Artemis III astronauts to the moon

4-billion-year-old mineral offers clues about Mars’ steaming hot past

New theory explains mysterious ocean quacking first heard in 1960s

How to talk to your ‘skeptic’ family about science misinformation

Mapping the shifting gaze of ‘fishlets’

A 3D-printed duck-billed dinosaur’s skull could help us learn what it sounded like

‘Unidentified product’ in tap water identified after 40 years

A lone dolphin has been yelling into Baltic Sea for years

Behold the world’s thinnest spaghetti

Why do humans have toenails? Because we’re evolutionary ‘weirdos.’

These wolves are the first known carnivores with a taste for sweets

Florida’s famous manatees were originally tourists

Neanderthals may have enjoyed collecting tchotchkes—just like us

This ancient skeleton turned out to have eight different people in it

Rare California Gold Rush coin fetches $1.44 million at auction

Six months in space is not that bad for your brain

Scottish, Irish, and Northern English better at detecting fake accents

The SpaceX Starship is so loud, it may kill birds

Watch the first commercial supersonic test flight in over 20 years

Colonial silver coin found in cabinet sells for $2.5 million

Why do people hate the sound of their own voice?

For octopuses, changing colors is hard work

Ancient Egyptian ritual potion included hallucinogens and bodily fluids

New pterosaur species sliced through the air with a sword-like tail

Bioengineers made mutant, solar-powered hamster cells

Is raw milk safe? Science has a clear answer.

How hitchhiking ticks are bringing diseases to new places

Jupiter stuns in new images

Why can’t we just launch all of Earth’s garbage into the sun?

Famously extra large penguin Pesto is molting

Mountain lions in Los Angeles become night owls to avoid humans

Immigrating great tits learn from their new neighbors

They CRISPR’ed tomatoes to make them sweet and large

Meteorite found in a drawer in 1929 contains ancient evidence of liquid water on Mars

World’s largest coral discovered and it’s longer than a blue whale

Chlorine and cocoa butter may help disease-ridden corals

Google used millions of Android phones to map the worst enemy of GPS

These 1.77-million-year-old teeth could help demystify human childhoods

Russian ‘spy whale’ was actually an aquatic guard turned ‘hooligan’