-
Photo: Fanatic Studio / Getty Images People Learned to Fly With VR Wings, Then Their Brains Did Something Weird
Don’t get too excited, we’re not going to be gene-splicing ourselves with eagles anytime soon.
-
Screenshot: Podolskiy et al., 2026, PLOS One, CC BY 4.0 Scientists Dropped a Camera Into the Arctic Deep and Filmed a Fish Doing Something Odd
“I do not want to insult any fish, but seemingly there is little to do down there.”
-
Photo: gonzalo martinez / Getty Images -
Photo: gorodenkoff / Getty Images Humans Have Been Obsessed With the Best Cuts of Meat for 1.6 Million Years
These guys knew where the good meat was.
-
Photo: anand purohit / Getty Images Just One Dose of Psilocybin Does Something Good to Your Brain
One trip can change your brain, it seems.
-
Photo: fcscafeine / Getty Images -
Photo: alex-mit / Getty Images Astronomers Say Something Massive Is Lurking Inside the Milky Way
The trickster galaxy has been hiding in plain sight for billions of years.
-
Photos: Antagain / Getty Images Scientists Crushed Fruit Flies With Extreme Gravity. Something Strange Happened Next.
The bugs were subjected to forces ranging from 4G to an absurd 13G.
-
Photo: Nzoka John / Getty Images This Asteroid Created a Cosmic Hiking Trail to Mars (and Scientists Want to Follow It)
Wouldn’t it be great if we had a shortcut to Mars?
-
Photo: Liudmila Chernetska / Getty Images Scientists Just Discovered a Surprising New Talent in Bees
Wouldn’t it be so embarrassing if a bee smoked you in the SATs
-
Photo: Mimi Haddon / Getty Images You Have More Control Over Your Dreams Than You Think
Your waking personality, your relationship with your own mind, and the world you’re living in all leave fingerprints on what happens when you close your eyes.
-
Photo: liquidfog / Getty Images
