Some orcas have a taste for liver — specifically, the livers of great white sharks.
Videos taken by scientists in Mexico reveal how the crafty whales manage to snag bites of the apex predators’ fatty organs.
Researchers filmed two orca hunts…
We know it looks like it is, but the moon isn’t full yet. In fact, there’s still two days to go before this month’s offering. But don’t worry, there’s still so much you can see tonight. Just keep…
Before taking up a position in an engineering department, I was warned by my neuroscience colleagues that engineers “don’t get biology,” and, by extension, they wouldn’t get me either. There is superficial truth in this. Few…
Physicists at the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) in Hamburg have discovered a striking new form of quantum behavior. In star-shaped Kagome crystals—named after a traditional Japanese…
In 2023, Surgeon General Dr. Vivek H. Murthy released an advisory1, declaring an unprecedented epidemic of loneliness within the United States. While the advisory outlined numerous factors implicated in the rising rates of social isolation, the…
Over a few million years, the spider Dysdera tilosensis (a species found only in the Canary Islands) has accomplished something extraordinary: it has cut its genome size nearly in half while adapting to its island environment. Despite this…
An object that struck an Australian man’s Tesla as he was traveling along a highway may have been a meteorite.
Andrew Melville-Smith, a veterinarian from Whyalla in South Australia, told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) that the…
When you open your fridge, you expect it to be cooler than your kitchen. Similarly, when astronomers look back billions of years into the Universe’s history, they expect to find it was hotter than today.
A team of Japanese researchers has just…
Earth’s oceans hold extraordinary biodiversity, yet only a small portion of an estimated two million marine species have been formally identified and described. One of the biggest hurdles in ocean science is the lengthy delay — sometimes lasting…