You’ll Never Guess What Took First Place at the Royal Society’s Photo Competition
Ever wonder what spider silk looks like up close? Like, really up close? The winner of this year’s Royal Society…
Study Warns of Major Toll ‘Chronic Stress’ Could Be Taking On Humans
Humans may be biologically unequipped to handle the relentless pace and pressures of modern life, a new study…
Oldest biological GPS? Magnetic fossils of mystery sea creature found
New research from Cambridge and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin has decoded the mystery of magnetic fossils left by an…
Scientists find cancer-fighting isotope hidden in accelerator waste
Scientists have found a way to convert high-energy radiation waste from particle accelerators into a critically scarce medical…
Forget Meat—Here Comes Genetically Modified Protein Fungus
Move over meat… scientists have engineered a fungal organism that produces protein more efficiently than conventional livestock while…
Subsurface ocean ‘storms’ linked to rapid Antarctic ice melt
image: ©nikkytok | iStock UC Irvine and NASA researchers have identified stormlike circulation patterns beneath Antarctic ice shelves…
Scientists create first human-cell bone marrow model in lab
For the first time in bioengineering, researchers have successfully developed a realistic model of human bone marrow using…
Hypersonic Levitation Spinning Speeds Cell Isolation
Many of the most devastating illnesses are like black boxes to science. Most cancer deaths, for example, are…
Peg–Legged Lizards Lead a Pirate’s Life On Caribbean Islands
An amputee American green anole – credit, Tony Gamble supplied to Washington University The Bahamas were once crawling…
Photographer’s Bat Portraits Capture Their Unique Personalities
José Gabriel Martínez-Fonseca A photographer whose biology work brings him up close and personal with bats captures incredible…
80 million-year-old fossil of marine crocodile found in Egypt
Fossilized remains of a long-snouted crocodile-like reptile have been uncovered in Egypt’s Western Desert. Paleontologists from Mansoura University…
Sperm From Older Men Have More Genetic Mutations
Human semen not only accumulates genetic mutations with age; as the percentage of sperm carrying potentially serious mutations…