Consumers can now get easy tests for Alzheimer’s. But these tests may not really help patients that much–yet.

Should You Get a Blood Test For Alzheimer's?

U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón discusses her involvement in NASA’s Europa Clipper mission and the inspiration behind her poem, which will travel onboard the spacecraft.

Ada Limón's Poem for Europa, Jupiter's Smallest Galilean Moon

Caterpillars can’t regulate their body temperatures, so they have to come up with a totally different strategy to make it through the coldest months of the year.

How the Woolly Bear Caterpillar Does Something Pretty Amazing to Survive the Winter

A honeybee swarm has as much electric charge as a thundercloud, and the insects’ mass movements in the atmosphere might even have some influence on the weather.

Bees 'Buzz' in More Ways Than You Might Think

The new field of digital bioacoustics is using machine learning to try decipher animal speak, including honeybee toots and quacks and whoops.

Scientists Are Beginning to Learn the Language of Bats and Bees Using AI

Are you working really hard to learn something? Remember this counterintuitive fact, and you might improve your learning curve.

Trying to Train Your Brain Faster? Knowing This Might Help with That

The bite of the lone star tick makes people allergic to a sugar found in mammalian products, and many doctors don’t know about it.

This Tick Bite Makes You Allergic to Red Meat

A “Darwinian paradox” is that homosexual activity occurs even though it does not lead to or aid in reproduction. But if you visit three capuchin monkeys in Los Angeles, they’ll show you how beneficial their liaisons are.

This Lesbian Monkey Love Triangle Tells Us Something Really Interesting about Darwin's 'Paradox'

The Luddites did not hate technology—but they did fight the way it was used to exploit humans.

What the Luddites Can Teach Us about AI

Xenotransplants could help to solve the organ transplant crisis—if researchers can get the science right.

A Pig Kidney Was Just Transplanted Into a Human Body, and It Is Still Working

Light is a very dangerous, if not so obvious, threat to birds who migrate at night. But researchers are using weather radar to track birds and provide “lights out” forecasts to help keep their paths clear of visual distraction.

Migratory Birds Are in Peril, but Knowing Where They Are at Night Could Help Save Them

Science is turning to machines to unlock the secrets of the vast, mysterious pulse-of-the-planet phenomenon that is nocturnal migration.

Artificial Intelligence Is Helping Us 'See' Some of the Billions of Birds Migrating at Night

If you really want to challenging your bird identification skills, try using them at night, when bird calls are less than 100 milliseconds long.

Here's How You Go Birding in the Middle of the Night

For thousands of years, no one  truly  knew how birds migrated—that is, until a few unlikely pioneers sat in an empty field with hundreds of pounds of kludged together recording gear and waited to hear sounds that no one had ever captured.

Using Human-Sized Microphones and Hay Bales, They Unlocked the Mysteries of Bird Migration

On any given night, dense clouds of dark, ghostly figures pass over your head as you sleep. Maybe you never knew they were there, but there are people out there who are deciphering all the unseen movement that happens amid the darkness.

They Tap Into the Magical, Hidden Pulse of the Planet, but What is the Nighttime Bird Surveillance Network?

Hearing aids may help maintain better brain functions in older people and better health overall.

Hearing Aids Stave Off Cognitive Decline

Apothecaries founded this famous garden—one of the most ancient botanical gardens in Europe—to teach their students which plants poison and which plants cure. 

In This Ancient Garden, Plants Can Cure or Kill You

Here’s how scientists are planning on getting underground fungi data from space using satellites.

The Fungi Economy, Part 3: Can Climate Modeling from Space Save Our Forests?

Atmospheric carbon is a currency that plants use to “buy” nutrients from fungi in the soil. To find out where this economy will go next, the devil is in the details. And the details are in the dirt.

The Fungi Economy, Part 2: Here's How Plants and Fungi Trade beneath Our Feet

Like us, plants and fungi have complex economies. By burning fossil fuels, we’ve been devaluing their currency.

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