Aimee Drane, Swansea University Mammals, from the mighty blue whale to the tiny shrew, inhabit nearly every corner of our planet. Their remarkable adaptability to different environments has long fascinated scientists, with each…
Andrew McCaig, University of Leeds If you were to slice through it, you would see the Earth is divided into distinct layers. On top is the relatively thin crust where we live. Beneath…
In Mount Juliet, Tennessee, a rare and intriguing phenomenon has caught the attention of biologists and animal lovers: a cat was born with four ears due to a genetic mutation. The protagonist of…
Jonathan Losos, Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis What prompted the idea for the course? I’m an evolutionary biologist who has spent my career studying the evolution of small lizards…
In many gardens, the tree known as the tulip tree, belonging to the genus Liriodendron, stands out for its beautiful flowers and foliage. However, researchers have recently discovered an intriguing secret about the…
It’s so sad to think that lung diseases are responsible for millions of deaths worldwide every year. Despite the amazing advances in medicine that we’ve seen, treatment options remain limited and animal models…
For decades, the scientific community has held firm to the belief that humans are the sole primates capable of speech. This long-standing assumption has recently been challenged by a groundbreaking study published in…
Jennifer Chu | MIT News A sustainable source for clean energy may lie in old soda cans and seawater. MIT engineers have found that when the aluminum in soda cans is exposed in its pure…
Recently, scientists announced a revolutionary discovery: metallic minerals present on the ocean floor can produce oxygen in conditions of complete darkness, known as “dark oxygen”, challenging the widely accepted notion that the Earth’s…
Samuel Levin, University of Oxford Aliens could be everywhere. There are at least 100 billion planets in our galaxy alone, and at least 20% of them could be habitable. Even if a tiny…