Sixty-six million years ago, the world ended in fire—and then in darkness. An asteroid six miles wide slammed into Earth…
Category: Biology
Squids Ruled the Seas Long Before Dinosaurs Disappeared
In the inky depths of prehistoric oceans, long before the fall of the dinosaurs, a silent revolution was unfolding. It…
Ancient Fungi Turned Insects into Zombies 133 Million Years Ago
In a jungle that no longer exists, under a humid Cretaceous canopy where dinosaurs thundered through the underbrush and flowering…
Cats Prefer the Left Side When Sleeping and Scientists Finally Know Why
Most of us have watched a cat curl up and drift into a deep slumber—sometimes on a sunny windowsill, other…
Scientists Create Fertile Mice Using Only Male DNA
In a quiet laboratory in Shanghai, a scientific milestone was quietly reached that could one day rewrite what we thought…
Orangutans Take Power Naps to Recover From Bad Sleep Just Like Humans
Anyone who’s ever had a bad night’s sleep knows the next day can feel like moving through molasses—your body aches,…
Why Do We Talk to Babies That Way? Scientists Trace the Origins of Baby Talk to Our Primate Roots
Anyone who has spent time with a baby knows the instinct: voices soften, pitch rises, and words stretch into sing-song…
Ancient Hedgehog-Sized Giant Discovered in Texas Fossils
In the sweltering heart of what is now Big Bend National Park, where desert blooms and mesas burn beneath the…
Drone Images Reveal Prehistoric Stage Where Dinosaurs Danced to Impress
Long before humans carved hearts into trees or peacocks fanned their feathers under the sun, there were dinosaurs—colossal, thunderous, and…
This Ancient Fossil Just Solved One of Evolution’s Weirdest Mysteries
Half a billion years ago, in the ancient, shallow seas that once covered what is now the Anti-Atlas Mountains of…
Scientists Discover Unexpectedly Vast Pool of Materials for Next-Gen Optical Tech
In the invisible war between light and matter, a new class of materials has quietly emerged—not only to keep pace…
Yeast Clusters Stir Up Their Own Currents to Defy Evolutionary Limits
In the quiet hum of a lab, something extraordinary is happening in a petri dish. Tiny yeast clusters—mere blobs of…
Galápagos Tomatoes Are Rewinding Evolution in Real Time
High above the waves crashing on the lava-forged shores of the Galápagos Islands, something quietly extraordinary is happening. Wild tomato…
Scientists Discover How the Thymus Builds Its Maze to Train the Immune System
Deep within the chest of every human lies a strangely shaped, often overlooked organ—the thymus. Though it tends to shrink…
Bats Fall in Love in Church Attics as Males Sing for Their Mates
High above the pews and pulpit, in the forgotten shadows of ancient church attics, a strange and beautiful ritual unfolds…
Scientists Freeze Proteins Inside Cells to Unlock Secrets of Disease
In a bustling lab at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, scientists have developed a molecular tool with a…
One Third of Nature’s Scavengers Are Disappearing and It Could Threaten Us All
In the still, forgotten corners of nature—the sun-scorched savannahs, misty forests, and deep blue seas—there are quiet workers who ask…
Human Cells Form Living Bots That Heal and Reverse Their Age
In a quiet laboratory at Tufts University, something extraordinary is taking place—not in the realm of artificial intelligence or quantum…
Fossils Buried in Volcanic Ash Uncover the Origins of Great Apes
Long before the first hominin took an upright step, long before the lineage that led to humans learned to shape…
How Early Humans Learned to Survive Anywhere Before Leaving Africa
Long before Homo sapiens conquered continents, long before cities rose and empires fell, humanity’s greatest journey was still waiting to…
Tiny Ice Pools May Have Saved Complex Life During Earth’s Deep Freeze
Roughly 700 million years ago, Earth became a world locked in ice. Oceans froze, continents vanished beneath glaciers, and global…
The Placenta May Hold the Secret to the Evolution of the Human Brain
In the quiet chambers of pregnancy, where mother and fetus are tethered by a single lifeline, a secret evolutionary drama…