Category: 7. Science

A newly discovered protein from Earth’s toughest animal is inspiring breakthrough therapies for cancer and cardiovascular disease.

Tardigrades, often called water bears or moss piglets, are microscopic creatures that can survive just about…

A new study may have just ended a decades-long dinosaur debate. Research published this week in Nature suggests that fossils once thought to be teenage Tyrannosaurus rex may actually belong to a completely separate, and much smaller, species: the…

It’s a regrettable reality that there is never enough time to cover all the interesting scientific stories we come across each month. In the past, we’ve featured year-end roundups of

An explorer and a glaciologist have embarked on a three-month mission to cross part of Antarctica on kite skis in search of ice that is 130,000 years old.

The goal of the French duo is to better understand the impact on world sea levels of any…

A new study suggests that certain spider web decorations help a spider figure out where prey has hit the web. The effect shows up as a small time advantage and, more importantly, as vibrations reaching more sensing points.

The work centers on the…

Far above your head, in the atmosphere between Earth and outer space, an invisible process is occurring. The increasing concentration of carbon dioxide is already manifesting itself in impacts beyond heat waves, melting ice, and rising seas. It…

Bowhead whales can live past 200 years, yet they rarely show the wear and tear we expect from such long lives.

A new study tracks that staying power to a protein that helps fix dangerous breaks in DNA, offering a fresh way to think about healthy…

After Christmas dinner in 2021, our family was glued to the television, watching the nail-biting launch of NASA’s $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope. There had not been such a leap forward in telescope technology since Hubble was launched in…