Ghost forests are growing as sea levels rise

As trees choked by saltwater die along low-lying coasts, marshes may move in. [...]

Newly hatched hummingbird looks, acts like a toxic caterpillar

"Batesian mimicry" is when a species evolves to look like one that's inedible. [...]

Research roundup: 2,400-year-old clay puppets; this is your brain on Klingon

Also: testing the efficacy of WWI "dazzle" camouflage; how the male blue-lined octopus survives deadly mating ritual. [...]

For climate and livelihoods, Africa bets big on solar mini-grids

Nigeria is pioneering the development of small, off-grid solar panel installations. [...]

Your Phone Pinging Hijacks Your Brain for 7 Seconds, Study Finds

It's tough to ignore the buzz of your phone when a new message arrives. [...]

AI joins the 8-hour work day as GLM ships 5.1 open source LLM, beating Opus 4.6 and GPT 5.4 on SWE-Bench Pro

Is China picking back up the open source AI baton? Z.ai, also known as Zhupai AI, a Chinese AI startup best known for its powerful, open source GLM family of models, has unveiled GLM-5.1 today under a [...]

DeepMind’s robotic ballet: An AI for coordinating manufacturing robots

An AI figures out how robots can get jobs done without getting in each other's way. [...]

A mammoth tusk boomerang from Poland is 40,000 years old

The boomerang is a one-of-a-kind find from the last place archaeologists expected. [...]

For giant carnivorous dinosaurs, big size didn’t mean a big bite

The biomechanics of dinosaur skulls say T. rex was the king of bite force. [...]