Jennifer Walter
Inverse
Wisconsin, United States
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These Tool-Wielding Monkeys Shed Light on a Huge Evolutionary Mystery
Macaques accidentally produce stone shards while smashing rocks together — a byproduct that looks nearly the same as tools used by our ancient ancestors. → Read More
Bees and Babies Have One Important Thing in Common
Honeybees teach their young how to communicate via a process that requires the same social learning principles that babies use when they learn to talk. → Read More
Watch: 100 Million Years of Simulated Evolution Shows Earth's Drastic Changes
Researchers modeled how 100 million years of evolution changed Earth's appearance. The results could help us predict how climate change will shape the future. → Read More
March 2023 Skywatching Calendar: Worm Moon and 4 More Celestial Events You Can't Miss
Keep your eye on the March sky for a bright planetary conjunction, the return of a bright star, and more → Read More
The Wildest Sci-fi Movie On Netflix Reveals a Real-Life Ethical Dilemma
"Sorry to Bother You" has a twist no one who has seen the movie has quite forgotten. But could it happen in real life? → Read More
Wooden Penis Might Be a 2000-Year-Old Dildo, Researcher Say
Phallic objects were common in the Roman empire, but this wooden penis may have been used for sex -- or possibly something else. → Read More
Insect Bites Reveal the Origins of an Elusive Plant Behavior
Symmetrical bite marks on leaf fossils reveal that some species have been sleeping with their leaves closed for at least 250 million years. → Read More
Pigeons and Computers Have One Surprising Thing in Common, Study Reveals
Pigeons use a strategy to solve problems that's common in machine learning algorithms -- but a matchup between a bird and a computer probably wouldn't be fair. → Read More
Watch: This jail-breaking wireless robot melts and reassembles on command
A robot made from magnetic particles and gallium can easily change states -- making it useful for a broad range of applications in medicine and manufacturing. → Read More
An asteroid will come within 2,200 miles of Earth tonight — here’s why you shouldn’t worry
There are over 31,000 near-Earth asteroids out in space, and many never pose a threat to our planet. Here's why close encounters shouldn't freak you out. → Read More
Listen: Dolphins "scream" to each other over human-made noise pollution
Loud background noise hindered dolphins' ability to carry out tasks, showing that human-made noise pollution can have a negative effect on animal communication. → Read More
Look: Scientists just discovered an Earth-sized planet that could potentially host life
Newly-discovered planet TOI-700 e could potentially host life, thanks to its position around its host star. → Read More
Huge eruption on Jupiter's moon sparks a volcanic mystery
A large eruption on Jupiter's moon Io, the most volcanically active body in the Solar System, leaves scientists with more questions than answers. → Read More
Shipwrecks, new species, and dead zones: 9 biggest deep-sea discoveries of 2022
Alien-like species, toxic salt pools, and giant pill bugs captured headlines in 2022 as some of the weirdest deep-sea discoveries. → Read More
Watch NASA's newest satellite dramatically unfold its "wings" in space
NASA and CNES launched a new water-monitoring satellite called SWOT last month. Recent footage shows SWOT dramatically unfolding its instruments in orbit. → Read More
2023 sky guide: Don't miss these eclipses, meteor showers, and more
A super rare eclipse, several bold meteor showers and more are on the calendar for 2023. Don't miss these 10 stunning skywatching opportunities this year. → Read More
Look: 9 stunning images from Mars missions in 2022
From vast craters to tiny, intricate pebbles, several Mars missions explored the Red Planet's oddities in detail this year -- and hit a few personal milestones. → Read More
Back from the dead: 9 species rediscovered in 2022
The Black-naped Pheasant pigeon and Hill's horseshoe bat were a few of the species thought to be extinct that were rediscovered in 2022. → Read More
Best James Webb Space Telescope images of 2022: 15 of the most stunning cosmic vistas
The James Webb Space Telescope launched a year ago in December, kicking off a new era for astronomy. Here are the telescope's most remarkable images from 2022. → Read More
Gems, coins, and ancient treasure: 10 ghostly shipwreck discoveries from 2022
Famous shipwrecks like Endurance and Gloucester were rediscovered in 2022, as well as ships dating back to medieval Europe. → Read More