Many home chefs know that tempering chocolate to achieve a perfect finish and a satisfying ‘snap’ is no easy feat. Small variations in the quality of...
Supply chains have been wreaking havoc across the industrial world. The complex web that holds the world’s economies together has been fraying at the edges, resulting...
Your dog sees you, there’s no doubt about that. These beautiful animals are ever watchful, ever devoted to us. But despite their loving (and food-obsessed) gaze,...
Goffin’s cockatoos, so adept at toolmaking in a laboratory setting, have now demonstrated their engineering chops in the wild. In their natural habitat on the Tanimbar...
Trusting your gut instinct might lead some people astray – new research suggests that so-called intuitive thinkers are more likely to believe and share misinformation about...
Weird neighbors. We’ve all had ’em. And apparently that’s as true for galaxies as it is for the people in them. One of the Milky Way’s...
Some birds are renowned for the beauty of their songs, but the bird with arguably the most complex song in the world doesn’t pen its own...
This week the World Health Organization named a new “variant of interest” of the coronavirus, called the Mu variant. It was first found in Colombia in...
As a tree grows and branches, we know it consumes and stores carbon from the atmosphere in its wood. But what happens when a tree dies?...
None of us would be around if organisms hadn’t been sparked into life billions of years ago. The question of just how that spark came about...