Happy birthday, David Attenborough! Famed naturalist marks 100 years
David Attenborough once directed programming at the BBC and has hosted numerous award-winning nature documentaries, but he’s always stayed down-to-earth, colleagues say
Wildfire breaks out in Chernobyl exclusion zone
A massive neutrino experiment is taking shape in an abandoned gold mine
The Pentagon just started releasing UFO files, but skeptics say they’re not impressed
Today’s Spellements
Science Quiz: The doomed voyage
See the Pentagon’s new UFO image release
The hidden cause of heart disease is inflammation
How strange new ‘altermagnets’ could rewrite physics
Space hotels are coming soon
Create as many words as you can!
Stretch your math muscles with these puzzles.
Can peanut allergies be cured?
How much vitamin D do you need to stay healthy?
These cancers were beyond treatment—but might not be anymore
What happens when you let AI agents run an entire start-up
Inside the ibogaine rush: How psychedelic therapy is going mainstream
See the Pentagon’s new UFO image release
The Pentagon has started releasing files related to unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), also called UFOs. Here are the images released so far
Math and statistics help explain the FBI's ‘missing scientists’ cases
Statistical principles show you don’t need a nefarious plot to explain clusters of missing scientists and lab workers
Trump administration cut funding to study hantavirus, the virus behind the deadly cruise ship outbreak
The Centers for Research in Emerging Infectious Diseases were designed to study viruses that could jump from animals to people, including hantavirus, but in 2025 the National Institutes of Health said the work wouldn’t continue
The Pentagon just started releasing UFO files, but skeptics say they’re not impressed
The Pentagon’s first UFO file release includes photographs, videos and documents gathered as part of an effort that spans several governmental offices and agencies, including the FBI, the White House and NASA
Why some mathematicians think we should abandon pi
A growing minority believes it’s a mistake to tie so many mathematical formulas to the famed 3.14... value. Another value, tau, could be better
A dangerous experiment is playing out on a cruise ship with hantavirus
The tragic and fatal outbreak of hantavirus onboard a luxury cruise ship highlights the gaps in research and treatments for the rare and mysterious infection—including how the virus spreads among people
