Biology(Page 23)

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Particle Accelerator Reveals That First Land Animals Walked Like Seals
Science

Particle Accelerator Reveals That First Land Animals Walked Like Seals

By Rebecca Boyle

How People Explain Color Throughout The World [Infographic]
Science

How People Explain Color Throughout The World [Infographic]

By Colin Lecher

Stop Shooting Wolves, You Maniacs
Environment

Stop Shooting Wolves, You Maniacs

By Dan Nosowitz

Great Apes Might Experience Mid-Life Crises Just Like Humans
Science

Great Apes Might Experience Mid-Life Crises Just Like Humans

By Rebecca Boyle

Are People Getting Dumber? One Geneticist Thinks So
Science

Are People Getting Dumber? One Geneticist Thinks So

By Rebecca Boyle

Eating Cooked Food Made Us Human
Science

Eating Cooked Food Made Us Human

By Rebecca Boyle

Interactive Fractal Tree of Life Zooms In On Earth’s Entire Evolutionary History
Science

Interactive Fractal Tree of Life Zooms In On Earth’s Entire Evolutionary History

By Rebecca Boyle

Rough Sketch: “We Made a Robot That Moves Like a Person”
Technology

Rough Sketch: “We Made a Robot That Moves Like a Person”

By Theresa Klein as told to Flora Lichtman

FYI: Why Does Cheese Taste Better When It’s Melted?
Science

FYI: Why Does Cheese Taste Better When It’s Melted?

By Daniel Engber

After Pregnancy, Many Women Have Bits Of Male DNA In Their Brains
Science

After Pregnancy, Many Women Have Bits Of Male DNA In Their Brains

By Colin Lecher

FYI: Why Do Girls Throw Like A Girl?
Science

FYI: Why Do Girls Throw Like A Girl?

By Colin Lecher

FYI: Does Training at High Altitudes Help Olympians Win?
Science

FYI: Does Training at High Altitudes Help Olympians Win?

By Colin Lecher

FYI: Did Prehistoric Birds Evolve Flight By Falling Out of Trees?
Science

FYI: Did Prehistoric Birds Evolve Flight By Falling Out of Trees?

By Daniel Engber

Guess What’s Cooking in the Garage
Science

Guess What’s Cooking in the Garage

By Jack Hitt

Buried Since the Jurassic Era, Ocean Microbes Are Still ‘Barely Alive’
Science

Buried Since the Jurassic Era, Ocean Microbes Are Still ‘Barely Alive’

By Rebecca Boyle

Video: The First Living Animal Ever Imaged With a Scanning Electron Microscope
Science

Video: The First Living Animal Ever Imaged With a Scanning Electron Microscope

By Clay Dillow

How Pigs on Antibiotics Are Making Superbugs Stronger
Science

How Pigs on Antibiotics Are Making Superbugs Stronger

By Rebecca Boyle

Is This New Study the Nail in the Coffin of “Arsenic Life”?
Science

Is This New Study the Nail in the Coffin of “Arsenic Life”?

By Tom Clynes

New Shrimp Farming Technique Yields Record Hauls of Jumbo Shrimp from Minimal Water
Environment

New Shrimp Farming Technique Yields Record Hauls of Jumbo Shrimp from Minimal Water

By Clay Dillow

Ten Astounding Cases of Modern Evolution and Adaptation
Science

Ten Astounding Cases of Modern Evolution and Adaptation

By Dan Nosowitz

Jurassic Mammal Fossil Hints At Earlier Split Between Placental Mammals and Marsupials
Science

Jurassic Mammal Fossil Hints At Earlier Split Between Placental Mammals and Marsupials

By Rebecca Boyle

Doctors Who Work With X-Rays May Be Adapting at the Cellular Level to Withstand Radiation
Science

Doctors Who Work With X-Rays May Be Adapting at the Cellular Level to Withstand Radiation

By Rebecca Boyle

‘Epidermal Electronics’ Paste Peelable Circuitry On Your Skin, Just Like A Temporary Tattoo
Health

‘Epidermal Electronics’ Paste Peelable Circuitry On Your Skin, Just Like A Temporary Tattoo

By Rebecca Boyle

Found: A Batch of DNA Molecules That Seem To Have Originated in Space
Science

Found: A Batch of DNA Molecules That Seem To Have Originated in Space

By Clay Dillow

The Man Who Would Stop Time
Science

The Man Who Would Stop Time

By Joseph Hooper

Cancers Are Newly Evolved Parasitic Species, Biologist Argues
Health

Cancers Are Newly Evolved Parasitic Species, Biologist Argues

By Rebecca Boyle

Some Mice Have Become Immune to Poison Through Natural but Highly Unusual Evolution
Science

Some Mice Have Become Immune to Poison Through Natural but Highly Unusual Evolution

By Dan Nosowitz

Why Sex With Creatures from the Future Is a Bad Idea
Science

Why Sex With Creatures from the Future Is a Bad Idea

By Jennifer Abbasi

Sir Richard Branson Launches Virgin Oceanic, Will Explore the Deepest Depths of Every Ocean
Science

Sir Richard Branson Launches Virgin Oceanic, Will Explore the Deepest Depths of Every Ocean

By Dan Nosowitz

NASA Scientist Claims to See Alien Life In Meteorites, Controversy Ensues
Science

NASA Scientist Claims to See Alien Life In Meteorites, Controversy Ensues

By Rebecca Boyle

Video: Creepy Madagascan Beasts Rub Their Back Hairs Together To Make Squeaks
Science

Video: Creepy Madagascan Beasts Rub Their Back Hairs Together To Make Squeaks

By Rebecca Boyle

With 30 Meters Left to Drill, Scientists Leave Subterranean Lake Vostok For The Winter, Amid Controversy
Science

With 30 Meters Left to Drill, Scientists Leave Subterranean Lake Vostok For The Winter, Amid Controversy

By Rebecca Boyle

Brilliant 10: Iain Couzin, the Pattern Maker
Science

Brilliant 10: Iain Couzin, the Pattern Maker

By Jacob Ward

NASA’s Newly Discovered Arsenic-Loving Bacteria Are Fascinating, but Not Aliens [Updated + Video]
Science

NASA’s Newly Discovered Arsenic-Loving Bacteria Are Fascinating, but Not Aliens [Updated + Video]

By Rebecca Boyle

Scientists Discover Self-Cloning Lizard Species On Vietnamese Restaurant Menu
Environment

Scientists Discover Self-Cloning Lizard Species On Vietnamese Restaurant Menu

By Dan Nosowitz

FYI: Why Do Ducks Have Orange Feet?
Science

FYI: Why Do Ducks Have Orange Feet?

By Bjorn Carey

Scientist Vows To Reverse-Engineer Dinosaur From Chicken
Science

Scientist Vows To Reverse-Engineer Dinosaur From Chicken

By Stuart Fox

Didymo
Environment

Nature’s Grossest Creatures

By Jeremy Hsu

Living Fossils
Science

Living Fossils

By Matt Ransford