Why there’s no one ‘normal’ body temperature
If you think 98.6°F is the "normal" body temperature for everyone, you might need to think again.
Researchers at Stanford Medicine have found that body...
Why your amazing shoulder and elbow flexibility comes from climbing trees like an ape
Ever wonder why humans have such flexible shoulders and elbows?
Researchers from Dartmouth have a surprising answer: it’s because our ancient ape ancestors needed to...
How did plesiosaurs get their super-long necks? New fossils give clues
Ever wonder how some dinosaurs got really long necks?
Imagine a marine reptile, like the plesiosaur, with a neck five times longer than its body!
Scientists...
The most compelling places to search for life will look like ‘anomalies’, shows study
In the past two and a half years, two next-generation telescopes have been sent to space: NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and the...
How ancient sea bugs protected themselves and breathed easier
Have you ever heard of trilobites?
Imagine bugs living in the sea hundreds of millions of years ago, long before the dinosaurs.
These ancient creatures had...
Scientists find cool way to make stronger construction materials with bacteria
Scientists have discovered a cool new way to make building materials stronger and more eco-friendly, and it involves using tiny living organisms!
In a paper...
Scientists create robo-turtle to help real baby turtles reach the ocean safely
Have you ever watched a sea turtle glide gracefully in the water and wondered how they do it?
These animals have a unique way of...
Scientists use supernovae to narrow the search for alien civilizations
When you’re searching the skies for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence, it’s not a bad idea to be aware of cosmic flares.
In a sense, that...
The octopus visual system is a lot like ours, shows study
Just like us, octopuses use a large part of their brains for vision – about 70%, to be exact.
But for a long time, we...
Why can’t we just tow stranded whales and dolphins back out to sea
On Tuesday night, a pod of almost 100 long-finned pilot whales stranded itself on a beach on Western Australia's south coast.
Over the course of...