Leave a cheap plastic bag in the sun long enough and it’ll eventually crumble into a powdery mess, its petrochemical fragments destined to be blown far...
Something strange often happens just before a severe thunderstorm produces a tornado, high winds, or hailstones: A plume of ice and water known as an Above-Anvil...
Huge swaths of our DNA library are made up of non-coding genes that were long regarded as “junk DNA”. Recent findings, however, have shown these bits of...
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has now collected two rock samples, with signs that they were in contact with water for a long period of time boosting...
A new study has found migrating birds can read and ride patterns in the wind to breeze across the sea. When researchers attached GPS trackers to...
Most of us have tried a detox diet at least once in our lives. The idea of ‘cleansing’ ourselves from toxins of unhealthy eating or pollution...
Ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) are something of a mystery for astronomers. They’re smaller galaxies in terms of the number of stars, but they’re still spread out over...
A mere 13 days after conception, a rice-grain-sized pink blob, striving to become a dunnart joey, heaves itself out of its mother’s birth canal, drags its...
The fossilized web of a 385-million-year-old root network has scientists reimagining what the world’s first forests might once have looked like. The picture they have painted...
A ghastly bout of food poisoning isn’t an experience to forget. The commonly studied microscopic nematode Caenorhabditis elegans not only ensures it remembers, it genetically embeds...