Chernobyl’s dogs turned blue in 2025, and it wasn’t radiation. A biologist unpacks the real, verifiable science behind the color and the zone.
The habit sharp thinkers protect daily: unstructured time. New research on walking, incubation, and mind-wandering explains why it boosts creative thinking.
Hawaii could be affected by Tropical Storm Moke this weekend. Another foot of rainfall could be possible on the Big Island.

Tesla has discontinued Solar Roof, its solar panels designed to look like regular roofing tiles, Electrek reports. Sources “close to the program” told the publication that Tesla has informed its third-party installer network that Solar Roof is no longer available to order, and that only conventional solar panels will be supplied going forward. While Tesla […]
“People have talked about the Colorado River crisis for decades—we’re now in it,” says one expert. “Everyone you talk to is like, ‘Shit, man.’”
S301 passes close to Sagittarius A*—so close that its orbit could reveal how the black hole’s rotation warps the spacetime around it.

Plans to rescue NASA’s Swift Observatory satellite from falling into Earth’s atmosphere are seemingly dead in the water. The agency and Katalyst Space announced yesterday that the Link spacecraft will no longer capture or boost the Swift telescope to a higher altitude due to an ongoing “attitude control issue,” but will instead conduct rendezvous and […]
A two-minute nightly writing ritual can clear the mental clutter that saps focus — grounded in real psychology on attention residue and if-then planning.
Two weeks later, many communities in the Midwest are without power. An expert explains the science and human toll of a late-summer derecho.
A biologist explains the trillions of organisms like bacteria, fungi and mites living on human skin right now, and the surprising jobs they quietly do to keep it healthy.