Category: Biology

Imagine losing your head—and growing it back. In the mysterious world of planarian flatworms, this isn’t science fiction. It’s biology. And recent research from the National Cancer Institute and its…

Along the humid, palm-fringed shores of Kenya and Tanzania, a silent player in the battle against one of the world’s deadliest diseases has just stepped out of obscurity and into…

Artificial Intelligence—those two words have captured the imagination of the modern world. From sci-fi fantasies to real-world innovations, AI often conjures images of humanoid robots, self-driving cars, or powerful chess-playing…

In a sweeping new study that spans nearly 60 million years of plant evolution, an international team of scientists has cracked open the genetic treasure chest of the genus Malus—a…

In 2015, the universe whispered its secrets through ripples in spacetime, and humanity, for the first time, listened. The detection of gravitational waves by the LIGO observatory marked the dawn…

In a story that reads more like science fiction than lab science, researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa have uncovered compelling evidence that life’s earliest ingredients may have…

In a swampy, sun-dappled world that existed 20 million years ago, New Zealand’s waterways teemed with life that today feels almost mythical. Broad-backed crocodiles glided through the reeds, hunting for…

In the warm, lush world of the Middle Jurassic, nearly 166 million years ago, an unassuming reptile scampered across the branches of prehistoric trees—its tiny claws gripping bark, its nimble…

Most people, when conjuring an image of crocodiles, alligators, or gharials, picture hulking, scaly reptiles lurking in muddy waters—menacing relics from a prehistoric past. To the casual observer, crocodilians appear…

For more than a century, the armored titans known as ankylosaurs have fascinated paleontologists and dino-enthusiasts alike with their tank-like bodies, weaponized tails, and secretive evolutionary past. Now, in a…

Life, in all its magnificent diversity, didn’t simply appear as we see it today. From the towering giraffe to the camouflaged gecko, from the speedy cheetah to the deep-sea anglerfish…

Tick-tock. Inside each of us is a clock more precise than the most finely tuned Swiss chronometer. It doesn’t tick with gears or hands but with pulses of hormones, oscillations…

In a forest clearing, a salamander scurries under the brush, escaping the sudden snap of a predator’s jaws. In the struggle, it loses its tail—but to the salamander, this loss…

In late 2019, a mysterious virus emerged in Wuhan, China, igniting what would soon become the most devastating pandemic in a century. Within weeks, scientists around the world sprang into…

Imagine your body as a fortress, constantly under siege from invisible invaders—viruses, bacteria, and parasites that threaten your health. Your immune system is the valiant army that defends the gates,…

From the moment life began on Earth, nature has been shaping and reshaping the genetic code through slow, deliberate processes of mutation, selection, and evolution. Over millions of years, this…

Twins have fascinated humanity for millennia. From mythology and folklore to cutting-edge genetics, twins often symbolize something mystical—two individuals born together, seemingly mirrors of one another. They’ve been the subject…

In the late 20th century, a bold scientific endeavor captured the imagination of researchers and the public alike. It promised to unveil the complete instruction manual for building a human…

Plants have long been considered passive life forms—green background scenery in the grand theater of Earth’s ecosystems. Unlike animals, they don’t move, they don’t speak, they don’t possess brains or…

Every living thing on Earth, from the tiniest bacterium to the sprawling blue whale, is built from a blueprint encoded in DNA. This molecule, curled up tightly inside the nucleus…