From Science Magazine. The next time you go dancing, borrow some moves from a cockatoo. A 2025 study, published in PLOS ONE, identified and described 30 dance moves in captive cockatoos, suggesting dancing can be a form of mentally enriching play for caged birds. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4u3IuNk FOOTAGE CREDIT: SONY PICTURES ENTERTAINMENT/GETTY IMAGES #Cockatoos #Science…

From Science Magazine. Traditional holograms are made using lasers to capture light waves bouncing off a real object. This approach, known as holostereosynthesis, starts instead with any object, physical or digital, that can be broken down into 2D slices—here, nine plexiglass layers of a tiger painted in acrylics by Colombian artist Yosman Botero. Scientists first…

From Science Magazine. Butterflies suck—nectar. Walruses suck—clams. And most fishes suck everything they eat. But birds? Scientists had only seen a few examples, such as in pigeons, of drinking by suction. Now, researchers report that sunbirds use suction from their tongue to sip nectar. The find is the first example of any vertebrate drinking through…

From Science Magazine. Mitochondrial replacement therapy aims to lower the chance mothers will pass down mitochondria containing potentially fatal mutations. The treatment was approved by the U.K. parliament 11 years ago and has attracted close attention from researchers. A study published last year in The New England Journal of Medicine looked at eight babies born…

From Science Magazine. From the African tropics to the islands of the South Pacific Ocean, a few species of weaver ant make their living among the trees—by sculpting multilevel homes out of living leaves. To glue leaves together into intricate nests, though, groups of weaver ants must team up to bend leaves far bigger than…

From Science Magazine. If you’ve ever run out of breath before a dandelion runs out of fluff, don’t blame your lungs. Research from last year shows that depending on the wind’s direction, the force required to free a seed can vary by more than a factor of 100. The umbrellalike tufts resist downward tugs, but…

From Science Magazine. Unprecedented footage shows cetaceans from different families take turns lifting a baby whale to surface to breathe. Perri Thaler, a reporting intern at Science, explains. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4w9pHBE CREDITS: (FOOTAGE) PROJECT CETI; (MUSIC) CHRIS BURNS; (VIDEO PRODUCTION) K. MCLEAN/SCIENCE

From Science Magazine. Using the math of general relativity, researchers can design light patterns that guide a robot, as if it were a spacecraft bending through curved space toward a black hole. Learn more: https://scim.ag/3OKwxN1 FOOTAGE CREDIT: WILLIAM REINHARDT/UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA #Robots #Science #ScienceShorts

From Science Magazine. Much like other creatures, sulphur mollies band together to protect themselves from predators. But is there really strength in numbers? Learn more: https://scim.ag/42vE1qd CREDITS: (VIDEO) PACHER ET AL./SCIENCE ADVANCES; DORAN ET AL./CURRENT BIOLOGY; (IMAGES) PACHER ET AL./SCIENCE ADVANCES; HUGO TORRES/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS; RHODODENDRITES/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS; (GRAPHIC) PACHER ET AL./SCIENCE ADVANCES; (SCRIPT/NARRATION) J. GALVAN/SCIENCE; (EDITING)…

From Science Magazine. Footage from last year reveals spectral bats “hugging,” playing, and bringing food to their young. Learn more: https://scim.ag/48b3uZC FOOTAGE CREDIT: MARISA TIETGE/KNÖRNSCHILD LAB #Bats #Science #ScienceShorts

From Science Magazine. Astronomers have completed the largest 3D map of the universe ever made. Science Senior Correspondent Dan Clery explains how. Learn more: https://scim.ag/3OqlyIt CREDITS: (FOOTAGE) DESI COLLABORATION AND DESI MEMBER INSTITUTIONS/DOE/KPNO/NOIRLAB/NSF/AURA/R. PROCTOR; (IMAGE PROCESSING) M. ZAMANI (NSF NOIRLAB); MARILYN CHUNG/LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY; DESI COLLABORATION/DOE/KPNO/NOIRLAB/NSF/AURA/FISKE PLANETARIUM; (VIDEO PRODUCTION) M. CANTWELL/SCIENCE #Astronomy #Science #ScienceShorts

From Science Magazine. First-of-its-kind footage from the devastating magnitude 7.7 earthquake in Myanmar in March 2025 shows a hillside cracking in two, its pieces sliding past one another like a conveyor belt. The rupture was captured coincidentally on a driveway CCTV camera. Geologists at Kyoto University quickly realized the footage was actually the world’s first…

From Science Magazine. Research from last year shows elephants use a wide range of movements to express their desires. Learn more: https://scim.ag/3Qo4QtH FOOTAGE CREDIT: VESTA ELEUTERI #Elephants #Science #ScienceShorts

From Science Magazine. The human brain can bring rubber to life with one simple trick: Cover a person’s hand and place a rubber hand next to it, then stroke their hand and its facsimile, and suddenly the person will begin to “feel” the touch in the fake appendage. The rubber hand illusion helps demonstrate how…

From Science Magazine. This year’s children’s book roundup features everything from a look at space law to a clever wartime spider farmer. Senior Editor Valerie Thompson joins Science Podcast host Sarah Crespi to discuss the books and the reviews of them, written by Science staffers (and sometimes their kids). Learn more: https://scim.ag/4dKsmuF CREDITS: (PHOTOS) COURTESY…

From Science Magazine. Can your phone save your life during an earthquake? Learn more: https://scim.ag/3OgT4k9 CREDITS: (SCRIPT) N. AHMED/SCIENCE; (PHOTOS) RAMI ALSAYED/NURPHOTO VIA AP; ALLEN ET AL./SCIENCE; (FIGURE) ALLEN ET AL./SCIENCE (VIDEO FOOTAGE) GOOGLE; (VIDEO PRODUCTION) K. MCLEAN/SCIENCE #Earthquakes #Science #ScienceShorts

From Science Magazine. The brown rat has spread to almost every continent around the world. But how did it get here? And are they here to stay? Read the review: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adp1166

From Science Magazine. The brown rat has spread to almost every continent around the world. But how did they get here? And are they here to stay? Read the review: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adp1166

From Science Magazine. Most people can tell whether meat has turned rotten—the smell gives it away. But octopuses don’t have noses. However, a 2025 study published in Cell revealed the animals can use a set of “taste” sensors on their sucker cups to avoid eating dangerous meals, just as humans reject an off-smelling dish. Specific…

From Science Magazine. More than half of canines trained to help people with disabilities fail to graduate. Can science help? Online News Editor David Grimm and Multimedia Managing Producer Kevin McLean discuss how scientists at Canine Companions in Santa Rosa, California, are using behavioral research to improve service dog success. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4vdbqTX CREDITS: (FOOTAGE…

From Science Magazine. Using an innovative “digital fossil-mining” approach, researchers in Science uncovered hundreds of previously hidden fossil squid beaks, revealing a record that squids originated and became ecologically dominant roughly 100 million years ago—well before the end-Cretaceous extinction. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4m24t3Z FOOTAGE CREDIT: IKEGAMI ET AL./SCIENCE #Fossils #Science #ScienceShorts

From Science Magazine. Deer running toward an oncoming golf cart with experimental headlights show widely variable responses depending on individual personalities and experiences. Even so, they’re less likely to notice and react to LED headlights compared with halogens—leading drivers to slam on the brakes to prevent head-on collisions with deer who ignore the danger. Learn…

From Science Magazine. Even when we can see the Sun’s corona through a telescope, air turbulence in Earth’s atmosphere blurs our view of it, making it hard to discern fine details. In 2025, researchers removed this blur, producing the clearest images and videos to date of the Sun’s atmosphere. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4bVwoxM FOOTAGE CREDIT: SCHMIDT…

From Science Magazine. An unlikely new contributor has entered the ranks of theoretical physics: ChatGPT. Michael Greshko, Science’s associate online news editor, explains. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4s3UI6M CREDITS: (IMAGE) BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY; (VIDEO PRODUCTION) K. MCLEAN/SCIENCE #Physics #Science #ScienceShorts

From Science Magazine. One flock of cockatoos has learned how to operate human drinking fountains, performing a complex series of twists and holds to release the water into their mouths. The behavior—not seen in any other bird—has been so successful, it appears to be spreading among western Sydney’s cockatoo population, researchers report. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4uTkU6u…

From Science Magazine. Thousands buried in a 17th century Italian crypt reveal the lives of the working poor. Learn more: https://scim.ag/3PycotF CREDITS: (VIDEO PRODUCTION) M. CANTWELL/SCIENCE; (ILLUSTRATIONS) N. BURGESS/SCIENCE; (IMAGES) ARCHEOSFERA; IRCCS FOUNDATION CA’ GRANDA HOSPITAL MAGGIORE POLYCLINICLABANOF; L. BIEHLER-GOMEZ ET AL/ARCHAEOMETRY, 64:2 (2022) #Archaeology #Science #ScienceShorts

From Science Magazine. This seal may look like it’s watching the latest sci-fi epic, but it’s actually playing a high-tech simulation—one that’s shining new light on how the marine mammals navigate their murky underwater world. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4rZWJAY FOOTAGE CREDIT: SANDOW ET AL./JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY #Seals #Science #ScienceShorts

From Science Magazine. Two new treatments for gonorrhea showed their mettle in large clinical trials in 2025, and both have been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. CREDITS: (IMAGES) NIAID; RICHARD J. GREEN/SCIENCE SOURCE; SCIENCE; PHOTO LIBRARY/SCIENCE SOURCE; (VIDEO PRODUCTION) M. CANTWELL/SCIENCE #Health #Science #ScienceShorts *This video has been re-uploaded to correct a…

From Science Magazine. A tower made of worms might seem like something out of a horror movie, but it’s the real deal. Last year, scientists for the first time filmed microscopic worms called nematodes in the wild as they glommed together and formed large wriggling masses, they reported in Current Biology. FOOTAGE CREDIT: PEREZ ET…

From Science Magazine. Mussels have strong filaments called byssal threads to help them stick to rocky surfaces with surprising strength, to withstand the crashing waves. When needed, the bivalves can also release these threads with seemingly little effort. Deeper investigation and imaging revealed that friction between cilia in the living tissue and the nonliving byssal…

From Science Magazine. Despite decades of solar astronomy, neither robotic nor human eyes had ever seen the Sun’s polar regions. That is, until March 2025, when the Solar Orbiter took the first clear pictures of the Sun’s south pole from an angle of 15° below the solar equator. From that angle, the orbiter’s three instruments…

From Science Magazine. For decades, particle physicists have longed for something—anything—their prevailing theory, the standard model, cannot explain. Last June, perhaps the most tantalizing sign of a new mystery vanished when a long-running experiment reported that, contrary to its earlier claims, a particle called the muon was not more magnetic than the standard model predicts.…

From Science Magazine. When an octopus injures an arm, the appendage can split in two, giving the cephalopod an extra limb. But it’s long been unclear just how functional this ninth arm is, or how octopuses gradually accustom themselves to reusing the arm. In 2025, the first long-term observation of one of the animals in…

From Science Magazine. The honey bee waggle dance communicates information about resource location from a foraging worker to nestmates. Research in Science shows that this complex dance is, in part, learned by young bees as they observe more experienced bees. Learn more: https://scim.ag/40qMQkk CREDITS: (FOOTAGE) ERIC NERI; (MUSIC) PODINGTON BEAR; (VIDEO PRODUCTION) K. MCLEAN/SCIENCE #Bees…

From Science Magazine. Bumble bees may look clumsy and goofy hovering above a flower, but don’t be deceived: They’re among the hot rods of the insect world and able to fly 22 kilometers per hour. Even while hovering, their powerful wing muscles generate a lot of heat. Like any high-performance vehicle, the bees have ways…

From Science Magazine. When Google DeepMind unveiled its protein-structure predictor AlphaFold2 in 2020, it upended expectations for what AI could accomplish in science. Few imagined that general-purpose large language models (LLMs), trained on trillions of words and optimized simply to regurgitate humanlike text, might follow suit. That view is now shifting—tectonically—as LLMs scale up. Last…

From Science Magazine. “Drumming” allows chimpanzees to communicate across long distances. Last year, two studies showed the animals also drum to a distinct beat, which varies across chimp societies. The research suggests chimpanzees can learn and develop different rhythms, suggesting this musical ability may have evolved in our shared common ancestor. Read more: https://scim.ag/47q5EE1 FOOTAGE…

From Science Magazine. Personal care products such as lotion and perfume can repress the human oxidation field—a beneficial chemical microenvironment formed around the body’s surface that helps protect it from volatile organic compounds (VOCs)—Science Advances research finds. The oxidation field consists of hydroxyl radicals, which effectively neutralize VOCs. The work involving four participants identified ingredients…

From Science Magazine. Despite their reputation as nature’s buzziest pollinators, the vast majority of bee species spend most of their lives underground. Thanks to a hospital CT scanner, researchers have revealed insights into how these insects build their subterranean lairs. The method could help scientists learn more about how bees contribute to healthy soil and…