Let’s say it’s 2036, and scientists are working on a new class of drugs. Today, for instance, pharmaceutical companies use ...

Somaliland appeared on every embassy website as a place not to visit. Official rankings labeled it one of the most dangerous regions in the world. On the ground, money was exchanged openly on the ...

That’s only one problem. Your immune system also has an adaptive system of specialized immune cells and antibodies that attack and destroy invading microbes. This system remembers what those intruders ...

On this week’s episode of ‘The Big Interview’ podcast, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales talks about maintaining neutrality in an ...

Researchers report the first documented case of tool use in cattle, based on a Swiss Brown cow named Veronika who doesn’t just grab an object and rub it against herself.

For decades, the default assumption has been that cows don’t have the kind of minds that support tool use. A famous Far Side cartoon, Cow Tools, made that idea into a joke: a cow stands beside strange ...

Koch, who studied vision, thought that by measuring people's brain responses as they looked at special optical illusions, ...

Some time around 1683, amateur Dutch scientist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek scraped the plaque from between his teeth and peered ...

In the caves of Cantabria, a new species of wasp has been found preserved in amber resin that dates back 100 million years and has given new insights.

As ocean temperatures rise and currents shift, the plastisphere may become an even more effective route for biological invasions. Warmer waters could extend the survival of stowaway organisms, while ...

Considering the stakes, VashonBePrepared is sharing a recent newsletter published by Public Health – Seattle & King County ...

In recent weeks, a rumor claiming that Earth would “lose gravity ” for 7 seconds on August 12, 2026, has whipped up an online ...