The dromedary camel has spent millions of years being battered by bacteria, viruses and parasites across some of the harshest terrain on Earth.
Feb 23, 2026
A spore travels a long way to make a cloud. Released by a fungus in the boreal forests of Alaska or Canada, it drifts upward, catches a wind, and begins a…
Feb 23, 2026
At around midnight in a laboratory in Daejeon, South Korea, two robotic arms are working through a queue of 96 experiments nobody asked them to start.
Feb 23, 2026
Sixteen-year-old Amelia Keown was heading home after school — stopping off to pick up pom poms for dance practice — when a driver under the influence of drugs struck and killed her.
Feb 23, 2026
Somewhere in a sealed flask at the University of Edinburgh, a colony of E. coli is doing something rather useful with its lunch.
Feb 23, 2026
The water of Lac Mai Ndombe looks like cold tea. Dark, nearly opaque, stained deep brown by millennia of decaying vegetation washing in from the surrounding…
Feb 23, 2026
The map looks almost geological. Across the eastern United States, counties glow dark purple wherever nuclear plants cluster: along the Great Lakes corridor, the mid-Atlantic, the Connecticut River valley.
Feb 23, 2026
At 7 kelvin — a temperature so cold that even air would freeze solid — a single molecule sits on a copper surface.
Feb 20, 2026
For fifteen hours last January, the James Webb Space Telescope stared at a single target — watching it rotate, methodically slicing through its faint infrared glow one longitude at a time.
Feb 20, 2026
Ask an AI chatbot a question and you will get a polished, helpful answer. Ask it who it really is, though, and things get stranger.
Feb 20, 2026
When Peter Convey first set foot on Signy Island in the South Orkney archipelago in 1989, there was a small rock poking through the surface of the McCloud Glacier.
Feb 20, 2026
The fish had never seen a mirror before. It had, however, been injected with a small brown mark on its throat — the sort of patch that, to a cleaner wrasse living on a coral reef, signals something rather alarming.
Feb 20, 2026
At the Korea Institute of Science and Technology in Seoul, a cluster of researchers has been wrestling with one of the more awkward constraints in green hydrogen chemistry.
Feb 20, 2026
A newly hatched chick stands in a small arena, barely hours old, still wobbly on its feet.
Feb 20, 2026
