Chimpanzees in Uganda use flying insects to tend their wounds, study reveals
An adolescent female, Fricka, applied a flying insect to a wound on her inner right thigh. The wound…
How animals get their spots, and why they are beautifully imperfect
Top: A male ornate boxfish. Bottom: Simulated hexagon and stripe patterns obtained by diffusiophoretic assembly of two types…
Electric signals reveal magnetic spin waves, hinting at faster computing
(a) The Kagomé spin lattice of potassium iron jarosite along with (b) DM vectors comprising the in-plane direction…
Dark matter could color our view of the universe
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Dark matter has two central properties: it has mass like regular matter, and unlike…
Earliest long-snouted fossil crocodile from Egypt reveals the African origins of seagoing crocs
Life reconstruction of Wadisuchus kassabi from the Late Cretaceous of Egypt, showing an adult capturing a lungfish in…
Using entanglement to test whether gravity is quantum just got more complicated
Feynman diagrams for QED or linear quantum gravity. Credit: Nature (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-09595-7 Unifying gravity and quantum theory…
How the Mayans were able to accurately predict solar eclipses for centuries
Eclipse table of the Dresden Codex. Credit: Science Advances (2025). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adt9039 The Maya Civilization, from Central America,…
Virtual reality can help people understand and care about distant communities
A study participant in front of an image of a city. Credit: Jeremy Bailenson / Stanford For many…
Early experiment at the dawn of dinosaur evolution discovered
Skeletal anatomy of the Carnian theropod A. crurilongus. Credit: Nature Ecology & Evolution (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41559-025-02868-4 Argentinian researchers…
Three Earth-sized planets discovered in a compact binary system
Artist’s impression of TOI-2267 Mario Sucerquia (University of Grenoble Alpes). Credit: Mario Sucerquia (University of Grenoble Alpes). An…