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Category: Biology
This Common Blood Protein Is Secretly a Superhero Against Deadly Black Fungus
For decades, albumin has quietly flowed through the human bloodstream, known mainly as the most abundant protein in blood and…
Scientists Finally Found the Missing Body of the World’s Most Elusive Human Relative
In the sun-baked landscape of East Turkana in northern Kenya, time has a way of holding onto secrets. For decades,…
Scientists Found a Woolly Rhino’s Last Meal Inside a 14,000-Year-Old Wolf Pup
Long before written history, humans shared their world with a creature so striking that it demanded to be remembered in…
Scientists Discover That Same Sex Behavior in Primates Is a Secret Survival Strategy
For centuries, people have watched animals closely and still missed something that was happening right in front of them. Across…
Scientists Finally Found the Ghost Ancestor of the Entire Animal Kingdom
In the quiet depths of the ancient ocean, long before the first footprints marked the land, a mystery was brewing.…
How a Massive Deep Freeze 445 Million Years Ago Made Humans Possible
In a time before the first dinosaurs, nearly 445 million years ago, Earth was a world of vast, shallow seas…
The Massive Mystery of Europe’s Missing Horned Dinosaurs Has Finally Been Solved
Eighty million years ago, the Late Cretaceous world looked vastly different than the one we inhabit today. While North America…
The Sahara Wasn’t a Wall for These Early Humans Who Lived 800,000 Years Ago
Nearly 800,000 years ago, on the wind-swept Atlantic coast of what is now Morocco, a small group of early humans…
Scientists Find Mysterious Evidence That Some Creatures Survived the Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs
Around 66 million years ago, a mountain-sized asteroid slammed into the Yucatan Peninsula, igniting a global firestorm and casting a…
The Massive Green Blooms Choking the West Are Functional Dead Ends
If you have ever waded into a river in the American West, you have likely encountered the slippery, green film…
The Real-Life ‘Hobbits’ Disappeared 50,000 Years Ago. We Finally Know Why
For nearly 140,000 years, a cave on the Indonesian island of Flores sheltered a small-bodied human species whose very existence…
7 Million Years Ago, This Tiny Ape Stood Up—And Changed Our History Forever
For more than twenty years, a seven-million-year-old fossil from the sands of Chad has hovered in a scientific gray zone.…
Scientists Thought This Creature Was a One-Off—Then They Found Its Match Halfway Across the Globe
For decades, the Antarctic icefish held a singular place in biology textbooks and scientific imagination. It was the fish that…
Scientists Resurrect Millions-of-Years-Old Enzymes to Solve the Mystery of Cannabis
For decades, the names THC, CBD, and CBC have floated through public conversation as if they were fixed, timeless features…
The Marine Heat Wave That Traveled 2,000 Kilometers and Sank to the Deep Ocean
The North Atlantic does not change gently. Its ecology shifts with seasons and currents, but every so often it lurches,…
We Thought Flowering Plants Had a Double Genomic Advantage. We Were Wrong
Flowering plants are everywhere. They lace forests with color, fill fields with grain, and quietly support almost every terrestrial ecosystem.…
Millions of Years Ago, Japan and the Americas Were Connected—By This Microscopic Shrimp
In the far north of Japan, where land meets cold seas and layers of ancient sediment lie quietly beneath the…
Only 21 Species on Earth Can Do This, and Colorado is Home to Four of Them
Winter in Colorado is not just a season. It is a test. Snow deepens, temperatures plunge, and the familiar colors…
Why Your Brain is Hardwired to Make Mistakes—And Why That’s a Good Thing
In a quiet computational space, far from cages and electrodes, a brain learned to see. It looked at patterns of…
The “Shower Analogy” Explaining Why Cancer Treatments Fail
For doctors and scientists, one of the most haunting questions in medicine never fully goes away. Why does cancer sometimes…
10 Life-Changing AI Tools You’ve Never Heard Of
Artificial intelligence has entered public consciousness as a dramatic and often polarizing force, associated with automation, job disruption, and futuristic…