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Social Sciences Nov 23, 2025

The plague of frog costumes demonstrates the subversive power of play in protests

When the center of protests against immigration enforcement switched recently to Charlotte, North Carolina, so did the frogs.

Plants & Animals Nov 20, 2025

Extinct rocket frog species identified from single 62-year-old museum specimen

Anyone walking through the Tarumã neighborhood in Curitiba (the capital of the state of Paraná, Brazil) today may find it difficult to imagine the area as it was in the past. Between the buildings, racetrack, and the city's ...

Plants & Animals Nov 13, 2025

New frog-like insects leap into the science books

Seven new species of a distinctive frog-like insect have been discovered by a scientist from Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) in Cambridge, England.

Plants & Animals Nov 13, 2025

You might think frogs never get enough water. Turns out, they can fare worse in floods than in bushfires

Frogs need water. Almost all of the world's 7,900 known frog species breed in fresh water. And when it rains, these amphibians erupt into a chorus of calls—croaks, trills, cheeps and bellows—to attract a mate.

Optics & Photonics Nov 7, 2025

Ultrafast VUV pulses fully characterized for probing valence electron dynamics

A team of researchers at the Max Born Institute have managed to fully characterize few-femtosecond-long light pulses tunable in the vacuum ultraviolet. These results unlock the possibility for studying valence electron dynamics ...

Plants & Animals Nov 6, 2025

Three newly discovered toads give birth to live young

An international team of researchers has discovered three new, bizarre, and wart-covered species of tree toads from Tanzania that give birth to fully developed toadlets. A key element of the study was the examination of specimens ...

Plants & Animals Oct 31, 2025

Tiny bat uses a lion-like strategy to save energy and capture large prey with surprising success

A new international study led by researchers from Aarhus University and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) reveals that small bats can be just as efficient predators as lions—and often more successful.

Plants & Animals Oct 30, 2025

Animals that eat poisons and don't die

Critters consuming species that contain deadly toxins have evolved a suite of clever strategies to keep out of harm's way.

Evolution Oct 27, 2025

Once tadpoles lose lungs, they never get them back

Tadpole species that lost their lungs through evolution never re-evolve them, even when environmental change would make it advantageous—bucking long-standing assumptions about how lost traits can reemerge, according to a ...

Social Sciences Oct 26, 2025

Why US activists are wearing inflatable frog costumes at protests against Trump

Three frogs, a shark, a unicorn and a Tyrannosaurus rex dance in front of a line of heavily armored police in riot gear.

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