The Great Lakes Are Hiding a Secret Underworld of Tardigrades and Rock-Eating Fungi
Hidden deep below the ground, a vast ecosystem of tiny organisms is reshaping scientists’ understanding of how life…
Scientists Find the Grossest, Most Efficient Way to Clean a Skeleton
When cleaning up animal skeletons for museum display, curators have several options. They could use chemicals or enzymes…
The Poop Emoji Got Gravity Right, Physicists Find
The poop emoji accurately captures the typical poop shape in nature formed by the downward pull of gravity.…
24,000-year-old frozen ‘zombie worm’ thawed by scientists — then it shockingly started reproducing
It thawed out — and then it multiplied. Scientists successfully revived a “zombie worm” that had been frozen…
Flying Parasitic Worms Use This Superpower to Ambush Prey Midair
Physics can get real strange on the microscopic level. For tiny creatures living on this scale, these eccentricities…