Moss Spores Riding on the Outside of the Space Station Survive For 9 Months
NASA The reproductive spores of a moss species were able to somehow survive the vacuum of space during…
Scientists Finally Understand How Animals Experience Joy
Scientists have known for a while now that animals feel pain. When it comes to other emotions, like…
NASA finds super-tough bacteria that could survive Mars trip
NASA has some of the cleanest rooms in the world to prevent contamination. But some microbes have found…
Specimen of rare whale spotted off Donegal last year sighted almost 5,000km away near Boston – The Irish Times
A specimen of a rare species of whale spotted off the coast of Donegal last summer was recently…
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…
Chernobyl nuclear fungus may shield astronauts from radiation in space
Life has a strange way of thriving in the most extreme places. A peculiar dark-black fungus at the…
The Physics of Nature’s Folds – and How Technology is Adapting Them
The earwig’s delicate, paper-thin wings can open 10x their folded size due to its origami-like creases – Credit:…
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…
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…
The world needs a better way to share genetic information
Biology is in the middle of a transformation. Over the past five years new sequencing techniques have made…