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In the forests of Tanzania, chimpanzees have long been known to fish for termites using handmade tools crafted from local plants. But what makes this behavior even more fascinating is how carefully they seem to choose the materials for their…

Recently, astronomers made an astonishing discovery — a mysterious and powerful burst of radio waves reached Earth after traveling through space for 8 billion years. Dubbed FRB 20220610A, it is one of the most distant and energetic radio…

The tone does not surprise me. In 2024 I criticized Autry’s willingness to coauthor a book with Peter Navarro, who spent time in federal prison for obstructing the 1/6 insurrection investigation. He came…

An interesting phenomenon is unfolding at the top of the world. Lakes on the Tibetan Plateau — sitting at more than 14,700 feet above sea level — are refilling, bucking lake-drying trends elsewhere on the planet, according to the Daily…

Deep inside marble and limestone formations in the deserts of Namibia, Oman, and Saudi Arabia, scientists have uncovered something astonishing: thin, perfectly aligned tunnels—carved through solid stone—that may have been made by mysterious…

Over the course of his Harvard doctoral studies, Rob Devlin must have made 100 of a new kind of mini-lens, experimenting with materials and prototyping new designs to bend light like a traditional camera only using a series of tiny pillars on a…

Suppose that you want to get rid of a whole lot of mosquitoes with a quadcopter drone by chopping them up in the rotor blades. If you had really good eyesight and pretty amazing piloting skills, you could maybe fly the drone yourself,…