Say Hello to the 2025 Ig Nobel Prize Winners
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Animals Are the Original Wellness Influencers
In the early 2010s, researchers in Mexico City noticed that sparrows and finches at...
Hummingbirds Are Evolving to Adapt to Life With Humans
Some species of hummingbird are adapting to urban life by undergoing evolutionary changes in...
Your Next Pet Could Be a Glowing Rabbit
Humans have been selectively breeding cats and dogs for thousands of years to make...
Mobulas, an Aquatic Wonder of the Gulf of California, Are Disappearing
Years ago, on the Gulf of California, Palacios began implanting small acoustic devices in...
A Parasite That Eats Cattle Alive Is Creeping North Toward the US
On November 22, the United States Department of Agriculture temporarily halted the import of...
How Cells Resist the Pressure of the Deep Sea
To study the cell membranes of deep-sea animals, the biochemist Itay Budin (center) joined...
Recluse Spider Season Is a Myth
This story originally appeared on WIRED en Español and has been translated from Spanish....
Mexico Is So Hot, Monkeys Are Falling to Their Death From Trees
Since the 2000s, cacao production has declined, due to plant diseases and falling local...
Doctors Combined a Heart Pump and Pig Kidney Transplant in Breakthrough Surgery
A 54-year-old New Jersey woman has become the second living person to receive a...
