1+ day, 10+ min ago   (1017+ words) A review of 57 studies reveals why music can ease pain, with personal choice, enjoyment, and active participation emerging as important factors. People put on music when something hurts, usually on the theory that it pulls attention away from the pain....

1+ day, 23+ hour ago   (912+ words) Dogs and cats can carry antibiotic-resistant bacteria that are genetically similar to strains found in people worldwide. Antibiotic resistance is often discussed as a hospital problem, where bacteria can survive medicines that once stopped them. Resistant bacteria also occur outside…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (880+ words) Ancient wildfires may have inspired pottery by showing early farmers how fire could transform ordinary clay into a hard, durable material. Long before anyone deliberately shaped a bowl, a stretch of ancient wildfires may have quietly handed early farmers the…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (1005+ words) Overlooked ocean foods such as oysters, mussels, shrimp and other invertebrates deliver surprisingly large amounts of essential vitamins and minerals. Fisheries and fish farms report their output in tons, which measures how much food there is but not what’s in…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (926+ words) Tropical insects remain poorly tracked, but combining local knowledge, social media, and monitoring could guide better conservation worldwide. Insects rarely receive the same attention as larger animals, but human life depends on many of the jobs they do. They pollinate…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (1027+ words) Methane in Arctic glacier rivers on Svalbard came from ancient shale, not microbes, and the yearly total is tiny next to what people emit. A glacier melts from the top, and the water runs off in rivers barely above freezing....

4+ day, 15+ hour ago   (1306+ words) Sixteen Asian elephants in Thailand gave up a trunk habit as soon as it stopped working, the first evidence of self-control in the species. Put a piece of fruit where an elephant can see it and smell it, and the…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (798+ words) Greenland ice reveals a surprising shift in industrial pollution after 1990 that could help explain recent Arctic warming. Buried deep in the Greenland ice sheet is a chemical diary of a century of industrial pollution, and the entries after 1990 don’t add…...

5+ day, 17+ hour ago   (996+ words) Sooty mangabeys bend the middle of their feet 46 degrees while climbing, matching the ankle bend of chimpanzees and informing debate over the last common ancestor. Climbing a bare tree trunk asks an ankle to bend further than walking ever does....

6+ day, 12+ min ago   (1152+ words) Beauty influencers shape what teens buy, and few teens read the labels on personal care products that can carry hormone-disrupting chemicals. Cleanser, deodorant, shampoo, lip balm, a spray of something scented. By first period, a high school girl can already…...