The Arctic woolly bear caterpillar freezes solid each winter, sometimes ten or fifteen times, and simply thaws back to life each spring.
Mar 25, 2026
The collar weighs about a kilogram and transmits six times a day. Fitted to an adult female somewhere in western Hudson Bay, it relays her position to a…
Mar 25, 2026
Most of medicine runs on the assumption that more oxygen-carrying capacity is better.
Mar 25, 2026
The last human footprints on the Moon are more than fifty years old. Neil Armstrong's bootprints in the Sea of Tranquility, left in July 1969, remain there today, preserved in the airless cold.
Mar 25, 2026
The algorithm ran across 18,185 bacterial genomes gathered from six continents, annotating and sorting as it went.
Mar 25, 2026
Brown fat is a tissue that runs hot. Packed with mitochondria, threaded through with blood vessels, laced with nerve fibers that fire when the temperature…
Mar 25, 2026
The specimen arrived in Japan sometime before the Second World War. It was a small, limbless reptile collected in Taiwan, formally described by the zoologist…
Mar 25, 2026
Choline acetyltransferase is an enzyme with one job: manufacturing acetylcholine.
Mar 25, 2026
Around 3 in the morning, something odd happens in the sleeping brain. The slow, synchronized waves that dominate early sleep begin to give way.
Mar 24, 2026
Evangelos Piliouras is demonstrating something that looks, at first glance, like a piece of abstract sculpture.
Mar 24, 2026
The first clue was the hair. A family had come to the attention of Bruno Reversade's genetics team in Singapore, and among the teenagers were children whose hair had begun to turn white.
Mar 24, 2026
They were, by any reasonable measure, doing everything right. The 513 older adults who enrolled in the Risk Reduction for Alzheimer's Disease trial (rrAD, to the researchers running it) weren't sedentary people shrugging at their health.
Mar 23, 2026
At 82, a woman in a Japanese care home is, statistically, somewhere she is less likely to die than her counterpart in Sweden.
Mar 23, 2026
DHEAS doesn't care about your birthday. The hormone, produced by the adrenal glands and gradually declining across adult life, has no particular interest in the number printed on your driving licence.
Mar 23, 2026
