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In the 1960s, scientists trained flatworms, ground them up, and fed them to other flatworms — and the second worms learned faster. What happened next is weirder than the experiment.

A Cold War surveillance network, designed to track Soviet submarines, accidentally became the first tool to reveal that whales might be communicating across entire ocean basins.

The Iceman's gut microbiome carries a yeast that no longer exists in modern Europe — and what survives in him is a map of what we've lost.

How centuries of increasingly strange instruments revealed that the sun speaks in ways we still don't fully hear.

Sterilized soil kept running biochemistry for six years — and the question of where chemistry ends and life begins got a lot harder to answer.

When a star swallows a rocky planet, the evidence is still visible billions of years later — written in lithium.

After every mass extinction, cephalopods surge. They're surging again. There's a pattern here worth sitting with.

A 1989 video of the Berlin Wall reveals how a structure can be physically present and functionally finished at the same time.