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This Mushroom’s Incredibly Bitter Taste Is New to Science

By K. R. Callaway edited by Sarah Lewin Frasier

Ever bite into something so…

A dull stretch of silty seafloor off Southern California hides a surprise that would fit on a pencil eraser. Here, three new sea spiders in the genus Sericosura have learned to live on the greenhouse gas methane, thanks to a cloak of bacteria…

When I was a kid, I sometimes played basketball on a schoolyard court next to a brick wall. Bouncing the ball, I’d notice its sound repeated a split second later from the wall’s direction. It sounded a little different, but it was clearly the…

“Then, at some point, they split apart,” says Taylor. “That can be from spinning up fast, or getting hit. That exposes ices and makes them become dark comets.” The process would also spin such objects to high speeds, which happens to be a…