Why do cats have ‘leg whiskers’?
Cats are known for the whiskers on their faces. However, if you look closely, you can see that they also have whiskers on their legs.
Category: Science
A fire’s rumble reveals where it’s burning
Researchers tracked a prescribed grassland fire using infrasound, sound waves pitched too low for people to hear.
America’s gun violence epidemic, through the eyes of a Chicago trauma surgeon
Gun violence is a uniquely American epidemic, according to Dr. Selwyn Rogers Jr. , the founding director of the University of Chicago Medicine Trauma Center.
Science word of the day: Allele
Science word of the day: Allele Pronunciation: Ah-LEEL’ What it means: Genes contain the instructions for the various proteins that determine traits, such as eye
A strange string of a dozen galaxies keeps surprising astronomers with its missing dark matter
In a string of a dozen small galaxies hung in the sky like a row of cosmic fairy lights, astronomers have discovered a small, ghostly
NASA’s Newest Wind Tunnel Opens at NASA Langley
NASA opened its newest wind tunnel, the Flight Dynamics Research Facility at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, on Friday, providing a critical resource
Is AI Reasoning Right for the Wrong Reasons?
I’ll just say it: What the hell is going on with AI “reasoning”? Sorry for the air quotes. That punctuational side-eye was more common in
‘We are not giving up yet’: Private mission to rescue NASA’s Swift telescope is spinning out of control, and engineers are racing to fix it
A private mission to rescue an ailing NASA space telescope may now need a rescue of its own. The LINK spacecraft — designed by private
‘We weren’t really looking for’ it: Astronomers accidentally discover 2 supernovas that exploded from a single star system in cosmic first
Astronomers may have just found a first-of-its-kind phenomenon buried in the shadow of one of the Milky Way ‘s most famous stellar explosions: two stars
Diagnostic dilemma: Rare ‘spinal stroke’ struck an 8-year-old and temporarily paralyzed her
The patient: An 8-year-old girl in the U.S. The symptoms: The girl arrived at an emergency department after waking up with sudden, severe pain in
To detect CTE while alive, a test for another brain disease may help
A protein that is a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease may also ID a brain condition associated with head trauma in contact sports, early findings suggest.
The protein craze may not be for everyone
Getting more protein has been all the rage. In sedentary people, that advice could accelerate aging.
How to watch ‘Secrets of the Great White Kill’ – stream ‘Shark Week’ 2026 from anywhere
Surfer, spear-fisher and free-diver Riley Elliott and marine biologist, shark diver and underwater photographer Kori Burkhardt put themselves in harm’s way in don’t-try-this-at-home “Shark Week”
IBM scientists claim they’ve achieved ‘quantum advantage’ — and they’ve dared others to prove them wrong
Scientists at IBM and partner institutions say they’ve reached “quantum advantage” in a trio of experiments demonstrating quantum computing capabilities that even the fastest classical