Katsura: The Delicious “Cake Trees” That Smell Like Caramel, Candy Floss, And Fall
If someone could bottle this scent, please and thank you.
Why You’ve Probably Been Washing Your Clothes Wrong All Along
It could be time to turn down the temperature.
It Had A ”Strong Pleistocene Aroma”: In 1984, Scientists Ate A 50,000-Year-Old Bison In A Stew
“The taste was delicious, and none of us suffered any ill effects from the meal.”
What Actually Is Fear? Find Out More In Issue 39 Of CURIOUS – Out Now
Do people still get mummified? Which animals have the worst table manners? All this and more exclusively in the latest issue of our e-magazine.
Earth’s Oldest And Deepest Lake Hides A ”Dark Secret”: Cannibalistic Fish
This 25-million-year-old lake holds one-fifth of all the planet’s fresh surface water.
Homo Sapiens’ Origins Pushed Back 400,000 Years, First-Ever Successful Huntington’s Disease Treatment, And Much More This Week
All the biggest science news stories of the week.
Interbreeding Hybrid Giant Salamanders Are Creating A Very Sticky Situation For Conservationists
Escapees of the restaurant trade are making things tricky for the conservation of giant salamanders.
Mushrooms Evolved The Ability To Make Psilocybin Twice Independently, For Mysterious Reasons
Why did two different fungi separately co-evolve the same psychedelic compound?
The North Atlantic Is Wobbling – And It’s A Warning For Us All
If we let this fall, it’s the first domino in a sequence of very, very bad, no good changes.
We’re Starting To See Saturn’s Rings Again – You Might Only Have 100 Million Years To Enjoy Them
On a temporary scale, the rings are coming back, but in the (much) longer term they’re probably a beautiful but transient phase.