Billions of years ago, Mars may have been bustling with climate-changing microbes By Laura Baisas / Oct 11, 2022
Nobel Prize in medicine awarded to scientist who sequenced Neanderthal genome By Laura Baisas / Oct 3, 2022
How the logic of ‘winter selection’ shaped centuries of bad science By Joseph L. Graves Jr. / Sep 12, 2022
Biofluorescent snailfish brave Arctic waters with built-in antifreeze By Jocelyn Solis-Moreira / Aug 16, 2022
Ancient milk-drinkers were just fine with their lactose intolerance–until famine struck By Philip Kiefer / Jul 28, 2022
A centuries-old horse tooth holds clues to the mystery of the Chincoteague ponies By Kate Baggaley / Jul 27, 2022
Ancient wolf DNA is being used to sniff out where our love story with dogs began By Kate Baggaley / Jun 29, 2022
A viral descendent of the deadly 1918 flu is probably still going around By Hannah Seo / May 11, 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
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
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
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
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
What’s in a packrat’s petrified pee? Just a few thousand years of secrets. By Jason Bittel / Aug 12, 2021
The debate over ‘Dragon Man’ shows that human origins are still kind of messy By Lauren Leffer / Jun 30, 2021
Important Scientific Mystery Solved: How Birds Lose Their Penises By Lindsey Kratochwill / Jun 6, 2013