Microscopic worms pee milk on their children as their bodies decompose
C. elegans turn their aging bodies into food for their children
How does Pfizer’s "90% effective" COVID-19 vaccine work?
Pfizer made a big news splash, but is their mRNA vaccine a silver bullet?
How to become a galaxy hunter: an interview with Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil
The University of Chicago astronomer talks about getting a galaxy named after herself and fighting for telescope time
Whale sharks' huge bodies mean they've never really been cold-blooded
Studying these enormous animals requires close collaboration between scientists and aquariums
Drug repurposing gave remdesivir its second, third, and fourth chance
The antiviral has had a charmed life, failing multiple times but coming back again and again
Meet Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, who figured out what the universe is made of
Stifled by sexism in Europe, she made foundational discoveries in astronomy after coming to the US
Sanguine glimpses of positive environmental change on pandemic-Twitter
Homebound humans allow Mother Nature to stretch her legs, but that doesn't mean our current situation is a good thing
Elizabeth Rona, the wandering polonium woman, changed radiation science forever
She survived world wars, anti-Semitism, and decades of exposure to early radiochemistry
Unhatched turtle embryos can shape their own sexual destinies
By moving to cooler areas inside the egg, turtle embryos can influence their own sex, and maybe ward off climate change too
Four things you need to know about hurricanes, according to Massive
Climate change, mental illness, and disease outbreaks
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There's life in one of the hottest, saltiest, most acidic, most contaminated places on Earth
And the scientists who found it got pictures
Meet mathematician Emmy Noether, mother of the most beautiful theorem in the world
She worked out a kink in general relativity and kickstarted the field of abstract algebra
How does an electric fish get its charge?
An accidental genome duplication (or two) created the highest frequency electrical discharge known in animals.
The weird and wonderful world of fish
A new book tells tales of the life aquatic
How to stop catfish from foisting their babies on you
Fish don’t have a reputation for smarts, but species that co-evolved with catfish know to avoid them
Tracking the history – and future – of the world's largest penguin breeding colony
Climate change is upending migration patterns that predate Cleopatra
Four facts about Jane Goodall, primatologist, anthropologist, and activist
Her unorthodox research showed us that chimpanzees are far more human than we thought
Meet Vera Rubin, the stargazer who predicted dark matter
From childhood, she preferred 'to stay up and watch the stars than go to sleep'
Chameleons do more than change color – their bones glow in the dark
Famous for camouflage, their visual communication turns out to run even deeper
Humans appear to be worse for animals than radioactive fallout
Chernobyl's nuclear disaster reveals the unpredictability of evolution
Life is evolving through a hurricane of human pollution
Animals are adapting to pollutants in surprising and often costly ways
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When you smell the roses, do they smell you back?
Scientists have found that plants like Canada goldenrod deploy defenses against insects on scent
Goldfish can survive without oxygen for months by basically getting drunk
"It's bizarre to see this kind of enzyme in anything with a face"
Why the first vertebrates to leave the ocean learned to see before they could walk
Advanced eyesight might have paved the way for better brains and complex thought