A leafcutter ant carries its leaf fragment across the soil.

Ant agriculture holds secrets for human sustainability

You’ve heard of ant farms — now meet the ant farmers
 Environment
• May 22, 2025

A farmer in China embraces tradition to weather climate calamities

 Environment
• May 22, 2025

Older farming techniques could help growers survive punishing droughts and floods

The paper on a type-writer reads "addiction recovery."

America is missing out on a crucial opportunity to contain opioid overdose deaths

 Health
• May 20, 2025

Implementing opioid treatment In jails could help combat the crisis

AI music is more common – and harder to catch – than ever

 Tech
• May 19, 2025

As text-to-music generators proliferate, detection tools are trying to catch up

New evidence emerges that memory is finite

 Health
• May 9, 2025

Strong memories might prevent weaker memories from forming, a new study in mice suggests.

Cows are a big part of the climate problem — but can be part of the solution, too

 Environment
• April 9, 2025

Researchers are working on innovative ways to reduce methane emissions from livestock

a male violinist in a black t-shirt is playing a violin

How does emotional music affect musicians?

 Audio
• April 3, 2025

Violinists play less smoothly when they're performing emotional pieces, according to new research. A professional violinist disagrees.

The A.hitleri population has dwindled. Nazi fanatics like to collect them because of their name. [Credit: Michael Munich | CC BY-SA 3.0]

It’s hard to name a species — and even harder to rename one

 Environment
• March 12, 2025

A beetle named after Hitler is just one of many names that haven’t aged well. Here’s how the species-naming process works

A clay tablet covered in cuneiform writing

Tracing cognition from clay stamps to cuneiform and beyond

 Social Science
• March 6, 2025

What the formation of writing can tell us about human cognition

tsavo man-eating lions

How do researchers study DNA that is more than 1,000 years old?

 Life Science
• March 5, 2025

In the 2000s, an exhibit of the infamous man-eating lions of Tsavo from Kenya that chowed down on 35 construction workers in the late 1890s was revived at Chicago’s Field […]

A world map shows a red sea, indicating rising ocean temperatures, but there is a cold blob just south of Greenland.

What is the ‘cold blob’ in the North Atlantic?

 Environment
• February 26, 2025

More than just blue dots in a sea of red, cold areas on maps of sea surface temperatures suggest climate change is shifting ocean currents, and some climate experts are worried

Photo by James Gathany, USCDCP on Pixnio

After the hurricane came more mosquitoes

 Environment
• February 17, 2025

Should we worry about the rise of mosquitoes in the aftermath of a hurricane?

E. coli magnified to 10,000x.

Bacteria can now do complex math

 Life Science
• February 17, 2025

A new experiment pushes biocomputers closer to reality. For some applications, they may be better than silicon

A group of reflective bubbles, representing pheromones, float against a black background.

The long quest to identify human pheromones and the smell of attraction, aggression and fear

 Life Science
• February 13, 2025

Insects, fish and even some mammals use pheromones as behavior signals. If researchers can prove humans do, too, exciting new therapies might follow

A hospital building with cars parked out front and a helicopter flying overhead.

Over a year after workplace violence bill, are Georgia hospitals safer?

 Health
• February 13, 2025

Effects of the 2023 Safer Hospitals Act could become clear as more hospital police departments are formed in coming years

After hurricanes, mold is nothing to sneeze at

 Health
• February 12, 2025

Wet environments are ideal for mold growth, especially on soft and squishy materials. The health risks can be severe

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