Biology(Page 27)

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Discovered: Molecule That Triggers Itchiness

Discovered: Molecule That Triggers Itchiness

By Lindsey Kratochwill

FYI: Do Parasites Get Parasites?

FYI: Do Parasites Get Parasites?

By Daniel Engber

FYI: Do I Really Need My Pinky Toe?

FYI: Do I Really Need My Pinky Toe?

What Cannibals Could Teach Us About Evolution

What Cannibals Could Teach Us About Evolution

By Lindsey Kratochwill

FYI: Why Are There No Native Monkeys In North America?

FYI: Why Are There No Native Monkeys In North America?

By Dan Nosowitz

Your Paleofads Are Paleo-B.S.

Your Paleofads Are Paleo-B.S.

What If Darwin Had Never Existed?

What If Darwin Had Never Existed?

By Peter J. Bowler

Penis Size Matters, Study Says

Penis Size Matters, Study Says

By Francie Diep

FYI: Which Came First, The Chicken Or The Egg?

FYI: Which Came First, The Chicken Or The Egg?

By Daniel Engber

Why Do Some People Faint When They See Blood?

Why Do Some People Faint When They See Blood?

By Colin Lecher

Fruit Flies Force-Feed Their Children Alcohol

Fruit Flies Force-Feed Their Children Alcohol

By Shaunacy Ferro

The Drama Over Project Encode, And Why Big Science And Small Science Are Different

The Drama Over Project Encode, And Why Big Science And Small Science Are Different

By Rebecca Boyle

How Homing Pigeons Find Their Way Home

How Homing Pigeons Find Their Way Home

Jackets Grown From Bacteria And 10 More Feats Of Bio-Engineering

Jackets Grown From Bacteria And 10 More Feats Of Bio-Engineering

By Shaunacy Ferro

The Human Race Will Come To An End. What’s Next?

The Human Race Will Come To An End. What’s Next?

‘Quantum Sense Of Smell’ Theory Gains Traction

‘Quantum Sense Of Smell’ Theory Gains Traction

Harvard Professor Seeks ‘Adventurous’ Human Woman To Birth A Neanderthal Baby (Update)

Harvard Professor Seeks ‘Adventurous’ Human Woman To Birth A Neanderthal Baby (Update)

By Colin Lecher

Particle Accelerator Reveals That First Land Animals Walked Like Seals

Particle Accelerator Reveals That First Land Animals Walked Like Seals

By Rebecca Boyle

How People Explain Color Throughout The World [Infographic]

How People Explain Color Throughout The World [Infographic]

By Colin Lecher

Stop Shooting Wolves, You Maniacs

Stop Shooting Wolves, You Maniacs

By Dan Nosowitz

Great Apes Might Experience Mid-Life Crises Just Like Humans

Great Apes Might Experience Mid-Life Crises Just Like Humans

By Rebecca Boyle

Are People Getting Dumber? One Geneticist Thinks So

Are People Getting Dumber? One Geneticist Thinks So

By Rebecca Boyle

Eating Cooked Food Made Us Human

Eating Cooked Food Made Us Human

By Rebecca Boyle

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

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”

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?

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

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

By Colin Lecher

FYI: Why Do Girls Throw Like A Girl?

FYI: Why Do Girls Throw Like A Girl?

By Colin Lecher

FYI: Does Training at High Altitudes Help Olympians Win?

FYI: Does Training at High Altitudes Help Olympians Win?

By Colin Lecher

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

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

By Daniel Engber

Guess What’s Cooking in the Garage

Guess What’s Cooking in the Garage

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

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

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

How Pigs on Antibiotics Are Making Superbugs Stronger

How Pigs on Antibiotics Are Making Superbugs Stronger

By Rebecca Boyle

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

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

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

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

Ten Astounding Cases of Modern Evolution and Adaptation

Ten Astounding Cases of Modern Evolution and Adaptation

By Dan Nosowitz

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

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

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

‘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

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

The Man Who Would Stop Time

The Man Who Would Stop Time

By Joseph Hooper

Cancers Are Newly Evolved Parasitic Species, Biologist Argues

Cancers Are Newly Evolved Parasitic Species, Biologist Argues

By Rebecca Boyle

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Brilliant 10: Iain Couzin, the Pattern Maker

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

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

Scientists Discover Self-Cloning Lizard Species On Vietnamese Restaurant Menu

By Dan Nosowitz

FYI: Why Do Ducks Have Orange Feet?

FYI: Why Do Ducks Have Orange Feet?

Scientist Vows To Reverse-Engineer Dinosaur From Chicken

Scientist Vows To Reverse-Engineer Dinosaur From Chicken

Nature’s Grossest Creatures

Living Fossils

By Matt Ransford