At-home experiments shed light on cats’ liquid behavior
Cats can flow like liquids through tall crevices, but they solidify a bit as they approach short crannies, new research shows.
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The base model is always the best—we drive the 2025 Porsche Macan
Porsche provided flights from Washington to Stuttgart and accommodation so Ars could drive the Macan and Macan 4S. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. STUTTGART, Germany—Porsche made its reputation with its rear-engined sports cars, but today it’s the SUVs…
Girls with ADHD in childhood tend to become less conscientious and agreeable as adolescents
A longitudinal study of a racially and socioeconomically diverse group of girls found that those diagnosed with ADHD in childhood tend to become less conscientious, agreeable, and emotionally stable as they grow up. Girls from higher-income families tended to describe…
Weird? These bat toes can glow greenish-blue
You’ve heard of jazz hands? These bats have glow toes. When ultraviolet (UV) light shines onto the Mexican free-tailed bat’s hairy toes, they light up. That glow is called photoluminescence. It happens when bristles on the toes absorb UV light,…
Acupuncture really works for sciatica pain, study finds
A new trial that compared acupuncture to a convincing placebo suggests that the treatment can help relieve sciatica pain.
Phew! No ‘doomsday’ asteroids hide in famous broken comet’s debris stream
The Taurid Meteoroid Stream, which is possibly responsible for the famous Tunguska and Chelyabinsk impacts, probably doesn’t hide a civilization-killing asteroid.
New intranasal RNA therapy shows promise in boosting memory and reducing anxiety
A recent study published in Genomic Psychiatry has unveiled a promising new therapy that may help improve memory and reduce anxiety. The study, conducted by scientists at Cognigenics, explores the potential of an innovative intranasal treatment known as COG-201. This…
Earth from space: 4 near-identical glaciers spark new life in Arctic island’s ‘polar desert’
This 2012 satellite photo shows a quartet of near-identical glaciers on Canada’s Ellesmere Island. The ice masses help to spark life in the otherwise barren Arctic environment.
NASA launches mission to explore the frozen frontier of Jupiter’s moon Europa
NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft lifted off Monday from Kennedy Space Center in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, kicking off a $5.2 billion robotic mission to explore one of the most promising locations in the Solar System for finding…
Apple study exposes deep cracks in LLMs’ “reasoning” capabilities
For a while now, companies like OpenAI and Google have been touting advanced “reasoning” capabilities as the next big step in their latest artificial intelligence models. Now, though, a new study from six Apple engineers shows that the mathematical “reasoning”…
