A Moment of Science

How Animals Improve Mental Health 10.03.2025 2:00 ↓

What do our pets do to our brains?

Females Prefer More Exotic Males? 07.03.2025 2:00 ↓

Hyenas are particular when it comes to choosing a partner.

What Makes Alcohol Denatured? 06.03.2025 2:00 ↓

What's the difference between alcohol that you can drink and industrial alcohol?

Learning about Autism One Yawn at a Time 05.03.2025 2:00 ↓

What makes yawns so contagious?

These Giraffes Are Missing Their Spots 04.03.2025 2:00 ↓

Why are these giraffes missing their spots?

Fire Beetles 03.03.2025 2:00 ↓

Most creatures run away when they detect a forest fire, but these beetles have other plans.

Welcome to the Anthropocene 28.02.2025 2:00 ↓

Has human activity changed our planet so much that it's now time to rename the current epoch? 

Moose, Bears, and Traffic 27.02.2025 2:00 ↓

Why do pregnant moose prefer to give birth near highways?

That's Nuts 26.02.2025 2:00 ↓

What is granular convection and why does it force all the Brazil nuts to the top of the bag?

More Salt, Higher Blood Pressure 25.02.2025 2:00 ↓

What impact does too much salt have on your body?

From the Mouths of Squid 24.02.2025 2:00 ↓

Who has the strongest beak of them all?

Red Tide 21.02.2025 2:00 ↓

What's so dangerous about the algae that blooms during a Red Tide?

Restoring the Brain's Waste Disposal System 20.02.2025 2:00 ↓

New developments in Alzheimer's research have led to the discovery of the brain's waste management system.

Viruses May Help Invasive Plants Conquer New Ranges 19.02.2025 2:00 ↓

How do invasive plants seem to have such an easy time conquering native species?

Pregnant Teenage Dinosaurs 18.02.2025 2:04 ↓

T-Rex often had babies at a young age, but why? And how did we find out?

Fish, Fish, the Musical Fish 17.02.2025 2:00 ↓

The Atlantic Herring has an interesting ability to make sound.

Humaniqueness 14.02.2025 2:00 ↓

What makes humans so unique from other animals?

Guarding Grains 13.02.2025 2:00 ↓

Without this gene, grains may not have survived as well as they have for tens of millions of years.

Bird's Nannies 12.02.2025 2:00 ↓

Birds engage in cooperative breeding, but not for the baby chick's benefit.

Potential Danger Lurking in Leftovers 11.02.2025 2:00 ↓

How long before you really need to toss those leftovers?

Chirpless Crickets? 10.02.2025 2:00 ↓

In the span of just a few years, male crickets on Kauai have evolved from boisterous to silent.

Seed Banks 07.02.2025 2:00 ↓

What is a seed bank? Haven't people been storing seeds for centuries? Not like this.

Compulsively Cluttered 06.02.2025 2:00 ↓

Compulsive hoarding syndrome is a condition that affects 11 million Americans.

Learning a Language 05.02.2025 2:00 ↓

How is it that some people seem to be really good at learning languages?

Aphids and Brussel Sprouts 04.02.2025 2:00 ↓

In a field experiment, scientists compared two groups of insects with different diets and discovered a food-chain reaction.