A multispecies map reveals the secret animal campus hiding in plain sight.

For a hundred years, we told the wrong story about moths and light.

The textbook version: a moth navigates by keeping a fixed angle to the moon. Because the moon is far away, this produces a straight line. When the moth tries the same trick with a streetlight — a near point instead of a far one — the geometry collapses into a logarithmic spiral. The moth corkscrews inward, drawn to the flame by…

Moth poo and cherry blossom leaves are the secret ingredients in Secret Spring. We’ve seen a lot of weird tipples in our time, but a new release from Haccoba Craft Sake Brewery in Fukushima Prefecture beats them all with one very unique ingredient: insect poop. This special sake is actually made by fermenting rice with […]