60 million fish heat up the Antarctic ice at world’s largest breeding site

How exactly do you hide tens of millions of fish?

By Cassidy Ward 4 days ago

Guinea worms are real life chestbursters and they’re taking shelter in our dogs

That guinea worms exist at all is bad enough, but messing with our dogs is going too far.

By Cassidy Ward 1 month ago

Close Encounters of the algal kind! Phytoplankton communicate with light

What could they be talking about?

By Cassidy Ward 1 month ago

The last spring of the dinosaurs

Scientists narrow down what time of year the dinosaurs died.

By Phil Plait 1 month ago

If life is going to find a way on Earth or anywhere else, it needs iron

if Earth wasn’t fortified with iron (kind of like your cereal), life here might have never existed.

By Elizabeth Rayne 1 month ago

Glowing jellyfish brains could help us read human minds 

We might learn more about what goes on inside the human brain from the glowing neurons of jellyfish.

By Elizabeth Rayne 1 month ago

Scientists located the rockfish’s genetic fountain of youth

Somebody tell Ponce de León.

By Cassidy Ward 2 months ago

It's not easy being green. Injected and illuminated algae breathes for tadpoles

Who needs lungs when you have plants?

By Cassidy Ward 3 months ago

Human tails obviously vanished, but why?

By Elizabeth Rayne 4 months ago

Why are hordes of creepy black worms wriggling out of glaciers every year?

By Elizabeth Rayne 4 months ago