Nobukazu Kuriki: The Relentless Climber Who Kept Returning to Everest
Above 8,000 meters, where breath comes thin and time grows brittle, certainty erodes with every step. Nobukazu Kuriki kept going…
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Diagnoses Rising, Symptoms Steady: What a Swedish Twin Study Reveals
Autism and ADHD diagnoses have climbed sharply over the past two decades, stoking fears of a hidden epidemic. A new…
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Why older men may need double the exercise
How much exercise does it take to protect an aging heart? A sweeping analysis of wearable data suggests the answer…
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What 2% Neanderthal DNA Really Means For Your Genome
You have probably heard that many people today carry a sliver of Neanderthal DNA. But does that mean we all…
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The NIN sample behind Lil Nas X’s Old Town Road
A teenage producer in the Netherlands flipped a moody instrumental from Nine Inch Nails into a beat that would upend…
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Childhood Obesity Linked to Smaller Adult Penises, Study Finds
A new study from Vietnam is drawing attention to an underexplored consequence of childhood obesity: smaller adult penis size. The…
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Beneath Antarctica’s Ice, Traces of Ancient Forests Persist
Antarctica is a continent of ice, but it is also a vault of deep time. Beneath and around its frozen…
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Face to Face With Brazil’s Elusive Maned Wolf in the Cerrado
In Brazil’s Cerrado, a fleeting encounter with a rare predator In the pale light between night and day, a rust-red…
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First on the Fire: The Elusive Life of Hawaiʻi’s Lava Cricket
On a fresh ribbon of black rock still warm from Kīlauea, life returns on six legs. Before ferns lace the…
