Biology (Page 30)

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Why Do Some People Faint When They See Blood?
Evolution

Why Do Some People Faint When They See Blood?

By Colin Lecher

Fruit Flies Force-Feed Their Children Alcohol
Evolution

Fruit Flies Force-Feed Their Children Alcohol

By Shaunacy Ferro

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

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

By Rebecca Boyle

How Homing Pigeons Find Their Way Home
Biology

How Homing Pigeons Find Their Way Home

By Clay Dillow

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

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?
Evolution

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

By Chip Walter

‘Quantum Sense Of Smell’ Theory Gains Traction
Biology

‘Quantum Sense Of Smell’ Theory Gains Traction

By Clay Dillow

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

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
Evolution

Particle Accelerator Reveals That First Land Animals Walked Like Seals

By Rebecca Boyle

How People Explain Color Throughout The World [Infographic]
Evolution

How People Explain Color Throughout The World [Infographic]

By Colin Lecher

Stop Shooting Wolves, You Maniacs
Biology

Stop Shooting Wolves, You Maniacs

By Dan Nosowitz

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

Great Apes Might Experience Mid-Life Crises Just Like Humans

By Rebecca Boyle

Are People Getting Dumber? One Geneticist Thinks So
Evolution

Are People Getting Dumber? One Geneticist Thinks So

By Rebecca Boyle

Eating Cooked Food Made Us Human
Evolution

Eating Cooked Food Made Us Human

By Rebecca Boyle

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

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”
Biology

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?
Evolution

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
Biology

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

By Colin Lecher

FYI: Why Do Girls Throw Like A Girl?
Evolution

FYI: Why Do Girls Throw Like A Girl?

By Colin Lecher

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

FYI: Does Training at High Altitudes Help Olympians Win?

By Colin Lecher

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

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

By Daniel Engber

Guess What’s Cooking in the Garage
Biology

Guess What’s Cooking in the Garage

By Jack Hitt

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

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
Biology

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

By Clay Dillow

How Pigs on Antibiotics Are Making Superbugs Stronger
Biology

How Pigs on Antibiotics Are Making Superbugs Stronger

By Rebecca Boyle

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

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
Biology

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

By Clay Dillow

Ten Astounding Cases of Modern Evolution and Adaptation
Evolution

Ten Astounding Cases of Modern Evolution and Adaptation

By Dan Nosowitz

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

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
Evolution

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
Biology

‘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
Biology

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

By Clay Dillow

The Man Who Would Stop Time
Biology

The Man Who Would Stop Time

By Joseph Hooper

Cancers Are Newly Evolved Parasitic Species, Biologist Argues
Biology

Cancers Are Newly Evolved Parasitic Species, Biologist Argues

By Rebecca Boyle

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

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
Biology

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
Biology

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
Evolution

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
Biology

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
Biology

Brilliant 10: Iain Couzin, the Pattern Maker

By Jacob Ward

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

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
Biology

Scientists Discover Self-Cloning Lizard Species On Vietnamese Restaurant Menu

By Dan Nosowitz

FYI: Why Do Ducks Have Orange Feet?
Evolution

FYI: Why Do Ducks Have Orange Feet?

By Bjorn Carey

Scientist Vows To Reverse-Engineer Dinosaur From Chicken
Evolution

Scientist Vows To Reverse-Engineer Dinosaur From Chicken

By Stuart Fox

Didymo
Biology

Nature’s Grossest Creatures

By Jeremy Hsu

Living Fossils
Evolution

Living Fossils

By Matt Ransford