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From Science Magazine. The Science staff named the rise of renewable energy as the 2025 Breakthrough of the Year, but there were many other research advances that caught our attention last year. Here are nine other impactful achievements you might have missed last year. 0:00 2025 Breakthrough of the Year 0:36 Neurons supercharge cancer cells…
From Science Magazine. A new Science Robotics study highlights a control approach that enables Punyo, a humanoid upper body robot, to manipulate unwieldy objects using its body. Read more: https://scim.ag/4qjaeLf CREDITS: (FOOTAGE) BARREIROS ET AL./SCIENCE ROBOTICS; (IMAGES) M. YIP/SCIENCE ROBOTICS; (SCRIPT) M. CANTWELL/SCIENCE; (VIDEO PRODUCTION) K. MCLEAN/SCIENCE #Robots #Science #ScienceShorts
From Science Magazine. A 2024 Science study revealed that an egg-laying species of worm-like amphibian nourishes its young with a lipid-rich, milk-like substance. The findings reported previously unobserved behavior and offer new insight into the species’ parental care and communication. Read more: https://scim.ag/4jSIAmA FOOTAGE CREDIT: MAILHO-FONTANA ET AL./SCIENCE #Amphibians #Science #ScienceShorts
From Science Magazine. During one of its closest approaches to the Sun, Europe’s Solar Orbiter spacecraft got a ring-side seat as an explosive burst of radiation began to billow out from the Sun’s atmosphere. The cause of these flares—which carry with them particles that can damage human technology—is something of a mystery. But in a…
From Science Magazine. About a decade ago, a baker in a small mountainous village in southern Austria noticed his cow doing something unusual. When Veronika had an itch, she would grab a stick in her mouth and use it to scratch her body. Over the years, the brown bovid’s technique improved. She could pick up…
From Science Magazine. Among most male frogs and toads, croaking is a way to say, "Don’t mess with my gal!" But when rushing streams and waterfalls drown out these warnings, more than 40 species have come up with a different strategy: They stick their legs up and out, a bit like dancers doing the cancan,…
From Science Magazine. Every tumor contains multitudes: A variety of cancerous and noncancerous cells—including immune cells and supportive stromal cells— contribute to the structural complexity of tumors, and therefore to variation in how different tumors respond to therapies. In a suite of 12 Nature Portfolio papers, researchers with the Human Tumor Atlas Network presented in…
From Science Magazine. One day, nanoscale robots could help our cells fight tumors and microbial invaders. But until they get flexible enough, there’s “liquid marbles.” Last year in Science Advances, researchers announced a technique for crafting minuscule globs of water with protective shells and a cell-like agility that could eventually roll into battle inside the…
From Science Magazine. These robots taught themselves how to play soccer using a technique called deep reinforcement learning. Authors Tuomas Haarnoja and Guy Lever explain how. Read more: https://scim.ag/4jM2tMc CREDITS: (FOOTAGE) GOOGLE DEEPMIND; (VIDEO PRODUCTION) LUKE GROSKIN #Robotics #Science #ScienceShorts
From Science Magazine. Tiny aquatic organisms like plankton are considered passive drifters, moving at the mercy of ocean currents. But reporting in the Journal of Experimental Biology, scientists show some of these microorganisms don’t just drift—they surf. The researchers chose a zooplankton—the larvae of the common slipper shell snail. They placed 2000 of the larvae…
From Science Magazine. When a massive asteroid slammed into the Moon’s southern region 3.8 billion years ago, it shot out debris that carved lunar fissures comparable in size to the Grand Canyon within minutes. Using lunar photographs, scientists created a flyover of one of the lunar valleys created by the Schrödinger Basin asteroid blast. The…
From Science Magazine. When a raindrop hits the ground, it explodes like a tiny bomb, carving out a tiny crater that sends soil and sand grains flying. Now, scientists report a previously unknown—and even more erosive—behavior. Under certain conditions, raindrops can bounce and then roll down a slope, picking up sand as they go. The…
From Science Magazine. Before you ask, no, it doesn’t have little tusks. But like the woolly mammoth that inspired it, a genetically engineered mouse from Colossal Biosciences—a biotech company striving to bring extinct species like the mammoth, dodo, and Tasmanian tiger back from the dead—does have thick, wavy hair with a coarse texture. To create…
From Science Magazine. In 2025, renewables helped bring the growth of greenhouse emissions to a virtual standstill in China and put a global carbon peak within reach. Tim Appenzeller, Science’s News Editor, and Li Shuo, director of the China Climate Hub at the Asia Society Policy Institute, explain. #ScienceTok #STEMTok Read more: https://scim.ag/4aCV0fJ CREDITS: (FOOTAGE)…
From Science Magazine. A 2023 study revealed cats have nearly 300 facial expressions—which may be due to their co-evolution with humans. Read more: https://scim.ag/44c7Hdv FOOTAGE CREDIT: LAUREN SCOTT #Cats #Science #ScienceShorts
From Science Magazine. The seemingly unstoppable growth of renewable energy is Science’s 2025 Breakthrough of the Year. Read more: https://scim.ag/4aCV0fJ FOOTAGE CREDIT: STRINGERSHUB/POND5; BLACKBOXGUILD/POND5 #RenewableEnergy #Science #ScienceShorts
From Science Magazine. It was the Pompeii of the Cambrian. About 515 million years ago, a volcanic eruption blanketed shallow waters in what are today the High Atlas Mountains in Morocco. The ash entombed the invertebrates living in the soft mud of the ocean floor, and within hours reacted with chemicals in seawater and hardened…
From Science Magazine. Archaeologists find evidence that a wave of mass brutality accompanied the collapse of the first pan-European culture. Read more: https://scim.ag/4p6y1NC CREDITS: (IMAGES) ANDREW CURRY; VRÁBLE EXCAVATION TEAM; GDKE RHINELAND-PALATINATE/FABIAN HAACK; UWE ANSPACH/PICTURE ALLIANCE VIA GETTY IMAGES; (GRAPHICS) V. PENNEY/SCIENCE; PATRICK J. LYNCH; (FOOTAGE) ANDREW CURRY; VRÁBLE EXCAVATION TEAM; (VIDEO PRODUCTION) K. MCLEAN/SCIENCE…
From Science Magazine. If the promise of a tasty meal makes you want to jump for joy, you may relate to the loggerhead turtle. These animals have an uncontrollable urge to dance whenever they anticipate food—a trait scientists behind a study in Nature used to test whether the reptiles can memorize their favorite feeding sites…
From Science Magazine. For decades, rising carbon emissions have accelerated climate change, but this year marked a critical turning point that could finally reverse that trend. Renewable energy has now graduated beyond the need for subsidies and incentives, emerging as a cheaper alternative to fossil fuels in many countries. News Editor Tim Appenzeller and policy…
From Science Magazine. A 2023 study revealed cats have nearly 300 facial expressions—which may be due to their co-evolution with humans. Read more: https://scim.ag/44c7Hdv FOOTAGE CREDIT: LAUREN SCOTT #Cats #Science #ScienceShorts
From Science Magazine. How do electrical impulses traveling among a tangle of neurons drive complex behaviors? Researchers seeking the answer have reconstructed the complete wiring diagram, or connectome, of the fruit fly’s adult brain—a feat akin to mapping all the buildings, avenues, and streets in a complex city. The comprehensive map will advance…
From Science Magazine. A new video has captured a lone female wolf pulling crab traps out of the water, but does it count as tool use? Read more: https://scim.ag/4oYrTXP CREDITS: (FOOTAGE) KYLE ARTELLE; (VIDEO PRODUCTION) K. MCLEAN/SCIENCE #Wolves #Science #ScienceShorts
From Science Magazine. When people work together, they can achieve great things. But if they can’t talk, they’re not necessarily smarter than ants, at least according to a study published last year in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Read more: https://scim.ag/3MjT15Z FOOTAGE CREDIT: DREYER ET AL./PNAS #Ants #Science #ScienceShorts
From Science Magazine. In 2021, researchers analyzed the anatomy and behavior of a tiny American parrot called a parrotlet and peregrine falcons, two species known for their expert footwork. They then designed SNAG (the Stereotyped Nature-Inspired Aerial Grasper)—a pair of jointed legs attached to feet with jointed talons that automatically close around any object they…
From Science Magazine. Tropical forests already cover some of the hottest parts of our planet, and these areas are only expected to get warmer. We know from temperate forests that heat can damage critical processes of individual trees and threaten landscape-scale survival, but how do plants already adapted to high temperatures respond? Staff writer Erik…
From Science Magazine. This splash-resistant cup borrows properties from nature to minimize spilling and sloshing. Read more: https://scim.ag/4rHfji8 CREDITS: (FOOTAGE) MA ET AL./SCIENCE ADVANCES; MARI1408/POND5; (SCRIPT) K. MCLEAN/SCIENCE #Engineering #Science #ScienceShorts