The first-ever global map of underground fungal networks—which nourish plants and absorb carbon—suggests that, if laid out in a straight line, these networks would span about 68 quadrillion miles

745-mile whale graveyard found at the bottom of Indian Ocean

700,000-year-old squirrel poop helps scientist recreate an ancient world

Dino-killing asteroid may have fueled underground life for 8 million years

Chromosomes from a frozen rat have been incorporated into living mouse cells, allowing scientists in Japan to create mice with rat DNA

Frozen rat chromosome springs back to life inside a mouse embryo

For the first time, researchers have identified a way to trigger some of sleep's memory-restoring effects in awake mice

Scientists Have Been Studying Fire Salamanders for More Than 250 Years. They Just Discovered That the Creatures Glow Under UV Light

Scientists have precisely edited human embryo genes

Offshore wind power cables can affect sensory system of sharks and rays: studies

We Finally Know What Turtles Are

DNA replication or DNA synthesis is the process of copying a double-stranded DNA molecule; this process is paramount to all life as we know it

Moving just above the seafloor, ROV Deep Discoverer came across this jellyfish hovering with its tentacles extending outward in all directions (2018)

Whatever the mirror test tells us, beluga whales pass it

Hearing on Unidentified Anomalous/UFO Phenomena (2024)

Hearing on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena/UFOs (2023)

What if the direction of a magnet could shape the building blocks of life?

View of the Laysan albatross colony on Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, at the northwestern edge of the Hawaiian archipelago (2026)

Scientists Discovered a Deadly New Creature Near 'the Island Behind Which Lies Death'

Video of a real-life 'octopus garden' discovered by scientists from the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary (2023)

Canada geese courtship and mating, Beaver Brook Open Space, Wethersfield, CT, USA

Scientists ID ‘corkscrew killer’ behind gruesome seal deaths

These ants navigate with a compass tuned to the moon

Scientists have uncovered evidence of a giant squid in waters off western Australia for the first time in more than 25 years

Why is almost everyone right-handed? The answer may lie in how we learned to walk

61 new beetle species reveal how little we still know about biodiversity

With fewer than 50 adults remaining, Rice's whales carry a secret record that could rewrite what survival looks like

Zoom in on DNA (2025)

Hairy new fish species discovered in the Great Barrier Reef

Meet the whistling mice that use inflatable air sacs to sing

Earthworms Don’t Bio-Accumulate Microplastics, So There May Be Hope For Us

Scientists claim to have found the "holy grail" gene for limb regrowth in a cross-species study spanning axolotls, zebrafish, and mice

Plants survived the dinosaur-killing asteroid by duplicating genomes

3D-MIND: A flexible device that can be integrated with living brain cells

What is this? Found on some dead Wood.

Dairy farms in California may transmit H5N1 virus through multiple sources

Bees can detect viruses in food sources, but don't necessarily avoid them

All Life on Earth Comes From One Single Ancestor. And It's So Much Older Than We Thought.

‘Miracle tree’ removes 98% of microplastics from drinking water, outperforming chemical alternatives

Evolution has reused the same genes for 120 million years

NASA Curiosity rover finds mysterious life linked molecules on Mars [NOT life]

How the brain replays past emotional experiences during sleep

Nanaimoteuthis haggarti, a finned octopus that prowled Cretaceous seas 86–72M years ago, grew up to 61 feet long — bigger than a school bus and larger than any known invertebrate alive today

Scientists Finally Identified That Weird Golden Orb They Found in the Deep Sea

One-step method reveals structures of RNA-protein complexes in living cells

Broad presence of ferromagnetism in bees and relationship to phylogeny, natural history, and sociality

The Ancient Weapons Active in Your Immune System Today | Quanta Magazine

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A team at Northwestern University has built flexible, low-cost artificial neurons capable of firing electrical signals that real brain cells actually respond to