You are probably familiar with the term that some people carry “a lot of extra baggage.” Usually that term refers...
Acadia National Park is known for its beautiful lakes—and they can tell scientists a lot about the health of the...
The next time you get a craving for sushi rolls, you may feel a renewed appreciation for the ocean. It’s...
Noah rode out his flood in an ark. Winnie-the-Pooh had an upside-down umbrella. Fire ants (Solenopsis invicta), meanwhile, form floating...
Most people are familiar with the cell nucleus from grade school biology as a storage compartment for DNA. But the...
Abrupt shifts in the evolution of animals—short periods of time when an organism rapidly changes size or form—have long been...
Fearsome dire wolves and saber-toothed cats no longer prowl around La Brea Tar Pits, but thanks to new research, anyone...
Scientists have discovered that a human receptor protein has the ability to detect individual amino acids in exactly the same...
By combining CRISPR technology with a protein designed with artificial intelligence, it is possible to awaken individual dormant genes by...
Small particles from tires inhibited the growth and caused adverse behavioral changes in organisms found in freshwater and coastal estuary...
Schistosomiasis is a debilitating disease caused by a parasitic worm that develops in freshwater snails before infecting people. Knocking back...
The only references we have for “life” are the forms we know on Earth. Astrobiologists suspect that the search for...
