Biology

Life As We Know Could Have Come From Algae on Steroids

What was life really like here on planet Earth before animals were big enough to leave fossils behind? How did living things turn from dinky capsules of genetic material into the intelligent, complex organisms that do things like fart and type curse words into posts on the internet? Scientists think they’ve found the answer… in…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Pill Cures Peanut Allergy For Four Years in Limited Study

You’ve no doubt heard a peanut allergy horror story sometime in your life. Maybe a friend’s friend was on a plane that needed to make an emergency landing for an allergy sufferer, or someone you knew had an allergic reaction from kissing their romantic partner. We now have things like epi-pens to help, but of…

Health Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Scientists Crack the Code of the Antarctic Penguin’s Mysterious Undersea Calls

When Gentoo penguins swim into the open ocean to hunt for food, they often produce wierd buzzing sounds that marine biologists assume is a form of communication. By strapping cameras to the backs of these aquatic birds, scientists have finally figured out the purpose of these odd vocalizations. Penguins make all sorts of strange grunts,…

Biology George Dvorsky

Giant Tortoise Apprehended 140 Meters From Zoo Two Weeks After Daring Escape

A female Aldabra giant tortoise named Abuh who had escaped from a Japanese zoo earlier this month has been found just a few steps away from the facility. Which got us wondering: Just how far could a 121 pound tortoise travel in 16 days? As reported in ChannelNewsAsia, Abuh made her daring escape on August…

Biology George Dvorsky

Fish Are Eating Small Bits of Plastic Because It Smells Delicious

Each year, our civilization pours around eight million tons of plastic into the ocean, a portion of which ends up in the bellies of fish, and by consequence, our dinner plates. New research suggests that at least one species of fish isn’t ingesting this plastic debris by chance—they’re actually attracted to the smell. The Northern…

Biology George Dvorsky

One of the Most Puzzling Dinosaurs Ever Discovered Just Got a Major Rebrand

Paleontologists uncovered a strange new dinosaur a few years ago—a crazy, patchwork quilt of a creature dubbed Chilesaurus diegosuarezi. Its bizarre and often conflicting characteristics defied classification, forcing scientists to make an educated guess about its place on the dino family tree. New research suggests the initial attempt to classify Chilesaurus was wrong, and that…

Tech News George Dvorsky

New Clues Emerge About Doomed Expedition Through the Northwest Passage

In 1845, Sir John Franklin led two British Royal Navy ships on an ill-fated expedition through the Northwest Passage—a famous and hazardous corridor connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. None of the crew members returned, spawning a mystery that has endured for more than 150 years. A new analysis explores the various ways in which…

Tech News George Dvorsky

Scientists Finally Unlock the Recipe For Magic Mushrooms

Based on prior reporting from field work and various sources, this reporter can confidently conclude that magic mushrooms are very chill. There’s more than college weekends to back that stance up, though. Past research has suggested they can help with the existential anxiety of cancer, positively change personalities, and even help kick nicotine addictions. You…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Goldfish Brew Their Own Booze to Survive Frozen Ponds

It’s just you and your mates in a hotel, braving the dark and the cold, sealed off from the outside world. But you soon find it hard to breathe. The oxygen levels are dropping, and you just don’t know why. Better get drunk, you think. You’re a goldfish, after all. Goldfish have a special adaptation…

Biology Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Prehistoric Beast Evolved a Freaky-Ass Skull From Millions of Years of Head-Butting

If you have to smash your head all the time, you’d hope that your body had some mechanism to prevent your brain from rattling out. Knock that noggin around enough, and eventually (on evolutionary scales, that is), you might end up looking, well, very silly. But scientists really wanted to understand how and why an…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum

If You Want to Catch a Lizard You May Have to Flirt With It

Humans are the ultimate predator. If you’re armed with the right tools there’s virtually nothing else that can beat you in a standoff (except maybe antibiotic resistant bacteria, but let’s forget about that). If you want to befriend the animal, though, it’s a whole different story. Researchers know that some animals can be sensitive to…

Biology Ryan F. Mandelbaum

A Wild Explanation For Why These Sea Snakes Are Losing Their Stripes

Sea snakes are a striking sight on the sun-dappled Pacific and Indian Ocean coral reefs they call home. They swim with deliberate, yet graceful winding movements above the reef, and they are often conspicuously-colored, with many species sporting patterns flush with yellows, oranges, and blues, broken up by stripes, blotches, and spots. This scaly skin,…

Biology Jake Buehler

Newly Named Titanosaur Was the Largest Land Animal Our Planet Has Ever Seen

Four years after six specimens were discovered in Argentina, scientists have finally given a name to what is now considered the largest animal to ever have walked the Earth. Say hello to Patagotitan mayorum—a Cretaceous-era dinosaur that weighed an astonishing 152,000 pounds. Before we get into the details of the new study, published today in…

Tech News George Dvorsky

These Jelly-Like Critters Form Serpentine Chains to Become Incredible Swimmers

Jellyfish-like salp are amazing swimmers, converting their gelatinous bodies into efficient undersea propulsion systems. But these tiny creatures can move even faster and further when banding together to create long, snake-like chains. Researchers have finally figured out how this unusual configuration makes salp even better swimmers. Salps are tiny, barrel-shaped marine invertebrates that move through…

Tech News George Dvorsky

This Isn’t a Horror Movie: Scientists Are Turning Organs Into Paper Cranes

The new guy at work invites you over to his house. You feel uneasy. Sure, he’s a hard worker, a fast typer, and his intense focus quickly made him an indispensable coworker. But his scarred face seems to betray some violent past. His measured speech seems manufactured. Still, you can’t remember the last new friend…

Health Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Robotic Deep Sea Explorer Uncovers Treasure Trove of Freaky Marine Life

Last month, scientists aboard the NOAA ship Okeanos Explorer visited a poorly-explored deep sea area about 940 miles west of Hawaii. From giant sea spiders and rare snailfish through to comb jellies and glass-like corals, these are some of the weirdest critters we’ve seen in a while. Laulima O Ka Moana, as the expedition was…

Biology George Dvorsky

Two-Headed Bat Found in Brazil Is the Stuff of Nightmares

Nature isn’t always sunshine and kitties. This proved itself yet again recently, when researchers at the Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro published a study on a pair of conjoined bat twins discovered in southeastern Brazil back in 2001. The animals were dead when they were discovered, which is almost always the case with…

Biology Rae Paoletta

Tiny Spider Appears to Have Sailed Across an Entire Ocean

Spiders in the family Migidae don’t get out much. Known as “tree trapdoor spiders,” they are unapologetic homebodies, spending nearly their entire lives chilling in a single burrow. Unlike their close, but much more famous relatives the tarantulas, tree trapdoor spiders are teeny, with most species small enough to fit on a fingernail. Just a…

Tech News Jake Buehler

Newly Discovered Giant Sea Pancake Looks Goofy As Hell

Sunfish are the living, breathing embodiment of a dad joke—it’s kind of funny, but you feel disappointed in yourself for laughing at it because it’s painfully silly. Known as the world’s largest bony fish, ocean sunfish—which make up the genus mola—look like a drunk person’s rendition of a fish, or rather, a person who’s never…

Tech News Rae Paoletta

Potential Building Block of Alien Life Spotted in Titan’s Atmosphere

Saturn’s moon Titan is a world of contrast; both eerily familiar and strikingly alien. Its calm seas and enormous sand dunes might remind you of Earth, until you learn that what’s flowing across Titan’s surface is not water, but liquid hydrocarbons. Titan’s nitrogen-rich atmosphere seems to have some of the ingredients for biology, but any…

Space & Spaceflight Maddie Stone

Life As We Know Could Have Come From Algae on Steroids

Pill Cures Peanut Allergy For Four Years in Limited Study

Scientists Crack the Code of the Antarctic Penguin’s Mysterious Undersea Calls

Giant Tortoise Apprehended 140 Meters From Zoo Two Weeks After Daring Escape

Fish Are Eating Small Bits of Plastic Because It Smells Delicious

One of the Most Puzzling Dinosaurs Ever Discovered Just Got a Major Rebrand

New Clues Emerge About Doomed Expedition Through the Northwest Passage

Scientists Finally Unlock the Recipe For Magic Mushrooms

Goldfish Brew Their Own Booze to Survive Frozen Ponds

Prehistoric Beast Evolved a Freaky-Ass Skull From Millions of Years of Head-Butting

If You Want to Catch a Lizard You May Have to Flirt With It

A Wild Explanation For Why These Sea Snakes Are Losing Their Stripes

Newly Named Titanosaur Was the Largest Land Animal Our Planet Has Ever Seen

These Jelly-Like Critters Form Serpentine Chains to Become Incredible Swimmers

This Isn’t a Horror Movie: Scientists Are Turning Organs Into Paper Cranes

Robotic Deep Sea Explorer Uncovers Treasure Trove of Freaky Marine Life

Two-Headed Bat Found in Brazil Is the Stuff of Nightmares

Tiny Spider Appears to Have Sailed Across an Entire Ocean

Newly Discovered Giant Sea Pancake Looks Goofy As Hell

Potential Building Block of Alien Life Spotted in Titan’s Atmosphere

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