60-second Science

As companies join the hunt, can the field of mind-altering synthetic substances stay true to its original pioneering spirit of wonder, curiosity and connection?

More than half of our diet consists of foods that have been industrially processed in some way, and they may be harmful to our health

Under the right conditions, the spadefoot tadpole will transform into a voracious predator of its own species.

Lions, tigers, bears: this creature sends all of those beasts running for the hills.

Can something spring back to life if it last moved around when woolly mammoths roamed the earth? The answer appears to be yes.

In the rush to build and train ever larger AI models, developers have swept up much of the searchable Internet, quite possibly including some of your own public data—and potentially some of your private data as well.

If you’re a silphid beetle, a dead body is all your children really want, and it’s your job—no matter how difficult—to get one for them.

The dangerous virus is still here. Here’s how you can stay safe.

Sea ice is changing fast. Are forecasts created by artificial intelligence the best way to keep up with the pace of a warming climate in the far north?

Researchers have been banned from working in Indonesia’s tropical rain forests after the government disagreed with their scientific conclusions.

A needlelike tower, hung with sensors, “sniffs” the air above the Arctic Circle for signs of catastrophic thaw in the sodden ground below.

In a tiny village north of the Arctic Circle in the Northwest Territories, the Inuvialuit of Tuktoyaktuk have taken climate science into their own hands. 

What is a permafrost thaw slump? Just imagine a massive hole with an area the size of more than nine football fields—and growing—where ice-cold ground once stood.

The popular decongestant phenylephrine is not effective, an FDA panel found. Here’s what to use instead.

We present the latest updates on ChatGPT, Bard and other competitors in the artificial intelligence arms race.

An astronomy festival in Italy opted to make all of its events and workshops multisensory. The organizers wanted to see whether sound, touch and smell can, like sight, transmit the wonders of the cosmos.

A blind astronomer “sonified” the universe’s most explosive events: gamma-ray bursts. By listening to, rather than looking at, the data, she made a critical discovery and changed the field of astronomy.

Space is famously silent, but astronomers and musicians are increasingly turning astronomical data into sound as a way to make discoveries and inspire people who are blind or visually impaired.

One researcher has been hiring planes to strafe the sky over the Amazon rain forest to collect the air coming off the trees, and what she is finding is cause for alarm.

Consumers can now get easy tests for Alzheimer’s. But these tests may not really help patients that much—yet.