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New purple fabric cools skin by 14°F and keeps working after 50 washes

The new purple fabric stays up to 11.2 degrees Fahrenheit cooler than conventional purple cotton while reflecting 87.6 percent of sunlight.

Scientists tracked kids for 8 years — the screen time result was unexpected

An eight-year Finnish study found that children who spent more time on screens tended to show better cognitive processing as teenagers, challenging common assumptions about screen use. Researchers say the key may be balancing physical activity with screen activities that encourage learning, creativity, and active thinking.

ZME Science

India Is Building a Power Plant That Uses the Difference Between Warm and Cold Seawater to Make Electricity Around the Clock

India’s Lakshadweep project could show whether ocean heat can deliver reliable power and fresh water.

ScienceAlert

What's Wildfire Smoke Actually Doing to Your Body? Studies Show It Might Be Worse Than You Think

This past week, a child stood on the observation deck of Toronto's CN Tower and looked out at a city skyline blurred by haze.

Zero roadkill as Amazon canopy bridges secure 15,000 crossings

For some of the world's rarest monkeys, the path to survival now runs through a simple network of ropes.

Open Culture

The Thai Beef Noodle Soup That Has Been Continuously Simmering for 52 Years

As Bangkok rises into the ranks of the world's great culinary destination cities, its restaurant scene caters to ever more well-heeled travelers. There, you can now visit establishments with not just one, and not just two, but three Michelin stars.

Triassic Inferno: Fires raged across Europe for thousands of years during past global warming

Fern savannahs were prone to large-scale burning, whereby the ferns themselves acted as the fuel that fanned the flames.

Popular Science

New paint-on health sensors are as fun as face paint

The colorful and customizable wearables can monitor heart rate, brain activity, and more.

ScienceAlert

Hidden Web of Fungus Inside Earth Could Reach The Sun a Billion Times

The ground beneath your feet is not quiescent.

ZME Science

What's It Like to Be a Fish? Anglers 100 Years Ago Used Underwater Cameras and the Photos Look Surprisingly Surreal

The quest to understand why fish bite produced some of the strangest photos in fishing history.

The Conversation

Impact of climate change may be equivalent to 3.3 million years of transformations in tropical vegetation

Changes that took millions of years can now happen in a matter of decades, and this accelerated rhythm can be destructive, with dangerous consequences for the planet

ScienceAlert

The Only Thing Separating Monkey Geometry Skills From Ours Might Be Formal Education

If you've ever gone hiking and reached a fork in the trail, you may be confronted with two triangles: one pointing right, one pointing left.

Popular Science

Why do fireflies glow? It's more than butt goo.

These luminous beetles use light to flirt and fend off predators.

Where on Earth Was This Fossil 200 Million Years Ago?

Researchers have created an open-access interface that turns present-day locations into ancient coordinates with near-desktop-level accuracy.

Scientists Say Love Follows Mathematical Patterns

By expanding dynamical systems theories to account for forgetting rates, attraction levels, and reaction patterns, math can now identify ‘relationship danger zones’.

ScienceAlert

For The First Time Ever, an Atmosphere Has Been Detected Around A Rocky 'Habitable Zone' Planet

As the famous lullaby attests, the diamond-like stars above have always been our companions.

seti.org

Alien World Chemistry Found Inside Meteorite

Open Culture

Explore 1,300+ Beautiful Wildlife Illustrations from the 19th Century, Now Restored and Available Online

Today, if you want to know about any of the flora or fauna that surround us, you have only to look it up online.

Wildfire smoke affects animals in unique ways. Scientists are trying to understand it

The new field of "smoke ecology" examines how wildfire smoke perturbs wild places and animals — and what might be done to prevent its worst mayhem.

Popular Science

Opera singers and shrieking lemurs share vocalization strategies

The world’s only known signing lemur needs to make calls that can travel through the thick rainforest.