Reindeer Can Sleep and Chew (Their Cud) at the Same Time

Image: Nebulae NGC1333 + NGC2264 = Space Xmas

The mystery of the medieval fighting snails

How the Beagle 2 was lost, then found, on Mars

Video: What The Prisoner’s Dilemma Reveals About Life, The Universe, and Everything [27:18]

Could Climate Change Cause More Lakes to Turn Bright Pink?

Alabama woman with two uteruses gives birth twice in two days

This week: Camel hump revelations, spiteful octopuses, phenomenal trunks, and more!

We’re (mostly) off for the holidays. See you on the other side. Meanwhile here are some means to interesting ends.

Video: NASA Is Bringing Supersonic Planes BACK [15:36]

Scientists Just Took the Best Picture Ever of a Neutron Star

A Demographic Time Bomb Is About to Hit the Beef Industry

Earth’s Core Seems to Mysteriously Wobble Every 8.5 Years

What Happens When Facebook Heats Your Home

How Search Engines Boost Misinformation

NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter set a new flight distance record on Mars

Your ‘dessert stomach’ is real. And it’s time you stopped feeling guilty about it

Colombia looks to recover billions in treasure from ‘holy grail of shipwrecks’

Reconstruction in Ukraine Is the Greatest Rebuilding Initiative Since WWII

Fermi mission creates 14-year time-lapse of the gamma-ray sky

Extremely rare ‘rainbow clouds’ light up Arctic skies for 3 days in a row

Is It Bad to Eat Late at Night?

Scientists Reveal What a Nuclear Explosion Would Do to an Asteroid

He Made a Magazine, 95 Issues, While Hiding From the Nazis in an Attic

The hunter-gatherer groups at the heart of a microbiome gold rush

Human tears contain substance that eases aggression, says study

Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Top-Secret Hawaii Compound

Fifty Years of Living with America’s Unexploded Bombs

Physicist Discovers ‘Paradox-Free’ Time Travel Is Theoretically Possible

People once lived in a vast region in north-western Australia – and it had an inland sea

Blood, Guns, and Broken Scooters: Inside the Chaotic Rise and Fall of Bird

Former NASA Astronaut Explains How to Poop in Space

Behind the New Iron Curtain

Their Bodies Were Donated to Harvard. Then They Went Missing

Video: Inside the World’s Largest Earthquake Simulator [19:02]

Do dog ‘talking buttons’ actually work? Here’s what the science says

Finding life on Saturn’s moon Enceladus might be easier than we thought

Can Webb find the first stars in the universe?

Mysterious fruit found to be the oldest known fossils of the Frankincense and Myrrh family

NASA’s 3D-printed Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine Test a Success

Uncontrolled chemical reactions fuel crises at L.A. County’s two largest landfills

How Two Pharmacists Figured Out That Decongestants Don’t Work

Should we geoengineer volcanoes?

Animals Behaving Horribly On Vintage Christmas Cards

‘Sanctuary: I grew up during The Troubles and have been seeking a place of peace ever since’

Will Psychedelics Replace Antidepressants?

New Measurement of The Higgs Boson Is The Most Precise Ever Recorded

Flowers ‘giving up’ on scarce insects and evolving to self-pollinate, say scientists

Man convicted of murder based on testimony of blind witness wins freedom as prosecutors opt against new trial

A Staggering Excavation Has Rewritten the Fall of the Roman Empire

Why We Sense Somebody Who Isn’t There

The Pentagon Is Forging an Airborne Wireless Energy Grid

Mickey, Disney, and the Public Domain: a 95-year Love Triangle

The Learning Labs of Sailing Ships

Video: Does planting trees actually cool the planet? [5:40]

Bizarre Theory Claims ChatGPT Is Suffering From Seasonal Depression

How different languages laugh online

Uptown Gothic: The NYC Photographs of Thaddeus Wilkerson

DNA sleuths solve mystery of the 2,000-year old corpse

Image: Ice flows on Mars