A urinalysis shows that these apes ingest significant amounts of alcohol, providing new clues to how alcohol influences the animals’ behavior

Happy paperback publication day to my second book, SISTERS IN SCIENCE! Dive into the true story of how Lise Meitner, Hedwig Kohn, Hertha Sponer, and Hildegard Stücklen fought sexism to become eminent physicists, then helped each other flee the Nazis. #nonfiction #womenshistory

Every snowflake is different, but new technology reveals they all swirl the same

Hocus Focus is entering Steam #NextFest later today, but you can play the demo in advance now! Chill beats, cozy vibes and a Transylvanian twist 👇

Morning.

This is how you do a blurb for the back of a comic book.

EMBL International PhD Programme - summer recruitment 2026! 👀 Research groups across EMBL are recruiting now! www.embl.org/about/info/e... Don’t miss this opportunity to receive dedicated mentoring while doing interdisciplinary research.

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Happy Lunar New Year everyone! This is probably the clearest handheld photo of the moon I’ve ever taken (Sony A6000/55-200mm). It’s amazing to know that every human being who has ever lifted their eyes toward the night sky will have seen the same view of the moon that you and I do. #moon #luna

This year, for Lent, I’m giving up.

It's wild to keep track of the tasks you need to complete for the game inside the game itself. Gamedevception!

I want to be that bear.

I want to spend more time writing about the amazing fossil discoveries paleontologists are unveiling each week. So I've started a newsletter! You can subscribe, and read the first post, right here. Welcome to The Boneyard. 🦴

if you're an older person who finds words like mogg and maxxing annoying, just starting using them. people over the age of 30 have the superpower to end trends by simply adopting them

Avian enthusiasts around the world will identify and count birds from February 13 through February 16 as part of a massive citizen science project

Researchers say they’ve identified the “battery” that powers at least one kind of aurora—aurora arcs

Bad Bunny took the stage at the Super Bowl halftime show. See highlights from his history-making performance. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02...

16 astonishing images from the 2026 Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards www.popsci.com/environment/...

This is Zephyr. He is a professionally trained bed bug detector. When he recognizes the scent of live bed bugs, he gives an alert by sitting and smiling exuberantly at his handler. We're pretty sure no one has ever been more excited to find bed bugs in their life. 13/10 (TT: emmercrew)

Are you a developmental biology researcher working with complicated volumetric data? Discover LimbLab, an open-source tool that can help you to visualise and analyse 3D data for developmental processes. www.embl.org/news/science...

NASA quietly updated its potential launch windows for its delayed moon mission, apparently now targeting March 6-11

Dickinsonia, back when evolution was excited to make pancakes. Paleontologists are pretty sure Dickinsonia was an animal, a creature that lived in the sea around 550 million years ago. The flat, ripply organism adhered itself to the floor with mucus and grazed on mats of microbes. Slick. 🧪

A treasure trove of Cambrian fossils has been discovered in southern China, providing a window on marine life shortly after Earth’s first mass extinction event

This is Callie. She is trained to accurately detect bowel cancer in order to provide rapid diagnoses through non-invasive testing. Some might call it lab work, but Callie is actually a sprocker spaniel. 14/10 incredible job, Callie (IG: medicaldetectiondogs)

Who's your spirit animal and why is it the Sleepkin? #indiegame #cozygaming

Here are my top 10 most unusual dog friends of all time!

Working solo but wishing you weren’t? I host free co-working for PhDs every Wednesday morning (ET).

Their numbers are growing, it appears to be completely decentralized, with people shouting out updates like “we’re needed on 4th street!” plus loud cheers when they identify someone in need of help and loud cheers when a vehicle is freed.

Alex Pretti, who was fatally shot by Border Patrol agents on Saturday, was a registered nurse who worked in the ICU at the Veterans Affairs hospital in Minneapolis. “He wanted to be helpful, to help humanity and have a career that was a force of good in the world,” a colleague said. trib.al/0Yb3jXF

Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."

Bovino: "Here in the US Border Patrol, I will say unequivocally that we are experts in dealing with children"

Me: "It would take an extremely fascinating new bird fact to distract me from the horrors" New paper: hold my beer Birds are very eye-dependent and eyes usually require a bunch of energy (and oxygen to metabolize it). Bird retinas run oxygen-free though, perhaps to fly extremely high (low O2)!

This is Maya. She hopes you find something you love even half as much as she loves sledding. 14/10 (IG: mayamoo_golden)

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🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

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The aurora borealis could be visible from states along the U.S.-Canadian border.

Atta Bonekin! 💀♥ #indiegame

In his inaugural address, Zohran Mamdani promised not just “a new politics” but “a new approach to power”, a proposition with a decidedly sharper edge. Just what this means for his vision of left-wing populism remains anyone’s guess

Homosexual behaviour has sometimes been regarded as an evolutionary paradox, but a study looking at 59 primate species suggests it does in fact boost survival.

T. rex grew up slowly: New study reveals 'king of dinosaurs' kept growing until age 40 phys.org/news/2026-01...

New clues hidden inside T. rex bones suggest that the carnivore lived longer lives than we thought

In this week’s issue: What if the idea of the autism spectrum is completely wrong? Grab a copy in shops now or download our app for digital editions. newscientist.com/issue/3577/

1/13/1810 — b. Ernestine Rose, Polish-American feminist, reformer, freethinker, lecturer. Early suffrage leader; co-founder, Assn of All Classes of All Nations (1835). Called for “political, legal + social equality w/ man” at the first Natl #WomensRights Convention(1850) #womenshistory #PolSky #BOTD

Thanks to @picornell.bsky.social for originally sharing this research! A new study from shows that, in the UK, the way someone speaks can shape how criminal they are perceived to be. 🔗 tinyurl.com/mr3kf4dd 🧵👇 #langsky #linguistics #forensiclinguistics

Hi #screenshotsaturday! This is Hocus Focus, a magical productivity game to help summon your focus 🔍

This is Porter. He became paralyzed after a spinal stroke. After weeks of physical therapy, this was the moment he realized he can feel his legs again. 14/10 we're so happy for him (IG: emmagraceferguson_)

Mood. The pup knows how to handle hump day. Happy Wednesday!

We have a fossil closer to our split with Neanderthals and Denisovans arstechnica.com/science/2026...