Meteorites older than the solar system contain key ingredients for life By Tatyana Woodall / Apr 26, 2022
An archerfish family tree is the best shot yet at the evolution of sniper fish By Ella Weaver / Apr 13, 2022
Dogs know exactly what they’re doing when they give you the ‘puppy eyes’ By Lauren J. Young / Apr 6, 2022
Why ocean researchers want to create a global library of undersea sounds By Charlotte Hu / Mar 19, 2022
Jacques Cousteau’s grandson is building a network of ocean floor research stations By Charlotte Hu / Mar 4, 2022
A closer look at E.O. Wilson’s archives reveals support for racist research By Michael Schulson/Undark / Feb 21, 2022
Eating meat may not have been as crucial to human evolution as we thought By Philip Kiefer / Jan 24, 2022
Eastern Africa’s oldest human fossils are more ancient than we realized By Kate Baggaley / Jan 12, 2022
These sophisticated bacteria communities assemble in tie-dye formation By Maggie Galloway / Jan 10, 2022
If that asteroid had been 30 seconds late, dinosaurs might rule the world and humans probably wouldn’t exist By Sara Chodosh / Jan 3, 2022
Fish sounds tell us about underwater reefs—but we need better tech to really listen By Charlotte Hu / Dec 9, 2021
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a ‘raft of life’ for animals in the open ocean By Kate Baggaley / Dec 7, 2021
The extreme consequences of stuffing yourselves during the holidays By Christina Agapakis / Nov 19, 2021
Animals have an internal ‘GPS’ that tells body parts where to grow By Ethan Bier/The Conversation / Nov 12, 2021
Inflatable tentacles and silk hats: See how caterpillars trick predators to survive By Erin Fennessy / Oct 29, 2021
Scientists discovered an extremely rare tardigrade fossil trapped in Dominican amber By Hannah Seo / Oct 6, 2021
These female hummingbirds don flashy male feathers to avoid unwanted harassment By Grace Wade / Aug 26, 2021
Our four-legged ancestors evolved from sea to land astonishingly quickly By Philip Kiefer / Aug 23, 2021
The weirdest things we learned this week: Falcon sex hats and buying human skulls on Instagram By Rachel Feltman / Apr 3, 2019
Scientists genetically engineered prehistoric proteins to detect diseases By Rahul Rao / Aug 16, 2021
What’s in a packrat’s petrified pee? Just a few thousand years of secrets. By Jason Bittel / Aug 12, 2021
The bizarre botany that makes corn a fruit, a grain, and also (kind of) a vegetable By Sara Chodosh / Jul 8, 2021
The debate over ‘Dragon Man’ shows that human origins are still kind of messy By Lauren Leffer / Jun 30, 2021
COVID drove more people to go fishing, but at what cost? By Christine Peterson/ Outdoor Life / Jun 23, 2021
These 142-year-old seeds sprouted after spending more than a century underground By Emily Cerf / Jun 13, 2021
Frozen Siberian microbes just woke up from a 24,000-year nap—and immediately got busy By Ellie Shechet / Jun 9, 2021