Mysteries of the commonplace

Do other animals call each other by name?

Latest from Live Science · 3h ago

One Type of Diabetes Responds Better to a Weekly GLP-1 Drug Than to Insulin

ScienceAlert · 4h ago

Genomic research published in 2026 revealed that koalas suffered a severe population collapse beginning about 100,000 years ago—before humans reached Australia—as glacial cooling and aridification destroyed and fragmented their forest habitat. Every living koala descends from the small eastern population that survived, then expanded and split into today’s major populations as forests recovered after the last ice age.

ScienceBlog.com · 5h ago

Curiosity Blog, Sols 4982–4987: Back to Our Regularly Scheduled Programming

NASA · 5h ago

A marine worm with no mouth and no gut makes its own enzyme for digesting the bioplastic its skin bacteria build up, and the same kind of enzyme turned up in 66 more animal species across nine phyla, from a sponge to an earthworm to a springtail

ScienceBlog.com · 6h ago

Black holes keep tearing these stars apart, but they survive

Latest Science News -- ScienceDaily · 8h ago