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Saulgranda/Getty Images Scientists Gave Fruit Flies Magic Mushrooms. Here’s What Happened.
The researchers primarily focused on the idea that psilocybin likely evolved to deter invertebrates that eat mushrooms.
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Laurence Dutton/Getty Images Scientist Loses Years of Work After Tweaking ChatGPT Settings
A German plant scientist says two years of academic work vanished in an instant after he clicked the wrong setting in ChatGPT.
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MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/GETTY IMAGES How Scientists Use Earthquake Sensors to Track Space Junk Crashing to Earth
Our atmosphere is loaded with space junk, and every once in a while, it comes plummeting down to Earth in a rain of fire.
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Finemeit/Twitter This Guy Got So Angry at an AI Art Exhibit That He Ate It
The man argues that his mastication of the AI images was both a form of protest and performance art.
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Ollikainen/Getty Images 6 Ways Freezing Cold Weather Can Turn Your Home Into a Nightmare
From carbon monoxide traps to fire hazards and frozen-pipe disasters, here’s how your house can turn on you during cold weather.
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6 Best Mattresses for Sex That Still Feel Great to Sleep On
Our top picks for your bedroom play, informed by sleep pros.
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Bloomberg/Contributor/Getty Images Why These Elephants Sometimes Raid Farms for Their Bananas
Farmers in Gabon have to deal with elephants eating all their crops. But why?
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Matt Cardy/Stringer/Getty Images Researchers Finally Figured Out How Stonehenge Happened. Well, Maybe.
And no, it wasn’t glaciers.
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A Flesh-Eating Screwworm Is Near the U.S. Border. Here’s What That Actually Means.
The screwworm is finally set for a full-scale U.S. invasion, as it has approached so closely to us that the CDC is now saying to stay alert.
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Ullstein bild/Contributor/Getty Images Everything We Know About the Massive Great White Shark Spotted Near Florida
A 14-foot-long, 1,600-pound great white shark named Contender has been detected off Florida’s coast… again.

