Meet the tardigrade, the toughest animal on Earth
Without water, a human can only survive for about 100 hours. But there’s a creature so resilient that it can go without it for decades.…
Without water, a human can only survive for about 100 hours. But there’s a creature so resilient that it can go without it for decades.…
We consume food between 1 to 2.5 kilograms of food each day, and every scrap makes it through the digestive system which is the most…
When French mathematician Laurent Schwartz was in high school, he started to worry that he wasn’t smart enough to solve math problems. Maybe you know…
On September 6, 1522, the “Victoria” sailed into harbor in southern Spain. The battered vessel and its 18 sailors were all that remained of a…
Your research team has found a prehistoric virus preserved in the permafrost and isolated it for study. After a late night working, you’re just closing…
For the microscopic lab worm, C. elegans life equates to just a few short weeks on Earth. Compare that with the tortoise, which can age…
It’s the height of the Gold Rush, 1850s California. A young tailor named Jacob Davis notices that his gold-mining customers are wearing through pants faster…
You breathe in about 17,000 times per day. It’s a process you rarely think about, but behind the scenes, a huge coordinated effort is playing…
What do these animals have in common? More than you might think. Along with over 5,000 other species, they’re mammals, or members of class mammalia.…
How did Dracula become the world’s most famous vampire? More than 100 years after his creator was laid to rest, Dracula lives on as the…