Science

TLDR: A photographer discovered 20,000 dinosaur footprints marching up a vertical Picture a nearly vertical cliff face in the Italian Alps, 2,000 meters above sea level. Your neck cranes back. Thousands of dinosaur footprints march upward across the rock as if gravity took a holiday 210 million years ago. Wait, what? This isn't evolutionary gymnastics. read more

TLDR: In late November 2025, Hayli Gubbi—a little-known shield volcano in Ethiopia’s Afar Depression—erupted explosively for the first time in at least 10–12,000 years, hurling ash and sulfur up to ~15 km into the atmosphere and disrupting flights as far away as India, even though ground-level air there stayed mostly clean. This “quiet” volcano turned read more

TLDR: New 2025 data from the world’s largest sleep study shows you can—and often do—dream in the deepest, slow-wave stages of non-REM sleep, overturning the long-held “REM-only” rule and hinting that these quiet nightmares are both emotional rehearsals and potential early-warning signals for accelerated aging, dementia risk, and mental-health decline. You know the feeling. You read more

TLDR: A Mississippi highway crash that freed 21 lab-bound rhesus macaques offers a rare look inside the hidden, high-stakes world of trucking research primates across America—where $10,000 animals ride in climate-controlled trucks because airlines quit the business, federal rules aim to prevent exactly this chaos, and every mile balances biomedical necessity against the stress of read more

TLDR: University of Washington researchers report in Nature Chemical Biology (Oct. 9, 2025) that they’ve built therapeutic proteins carrying logic circuits—AND/OR gates—that act only on cells passing a preset molecular checklist, promising far safer cancer and autoimmune treatments. The proteins’ “smart tail” folds when it meets two confirming biomarkers, flipping a molecular switch that delivers read more