These 10 Huge Discoveries Should’ve Been Nobel Prize Winners Our writers and editors name breakthrough advances and inventions that the Nobel Committee incomprehensibly overlooked. Thomas Edison is famous for his …
Giving Malaria a Deadline With a new genetic tool, scientists move a step closer to eradicating mosquitoes and the deadly diseases they carry. A false-color scanning electron micrograph of an …
Watch This Blob of Cells Become an Embryo in High-Resolution Researchers developed a new microscope that traces embryonic cell movement in real-time, sketching a virtual map of how organ systems …
A Brazilian rainforest is now being called an ‘extinction vortex’ An example of recent Atlantic Forest fragmentation. (Photo: SPOT Satellite/Wiki Commons) It’s sometimes a challenge for scientists to articulate …
Life With No Males? These Termites Show That It’s Possible A discovery among termite colonies in Japan suggests that males can be discarded from advanced societies in which they once …
ROBBIE GONZALEZROBBIE GONZALEZ A MUSHROOM EXTRACT MIGHT SAVE BEES FROM A KILLER VIRUS Simon Gaberscik/Getty Images The bees, as you’ve probably heard, are dying, in massive numbers. Termed colony collapse …
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Sardinia has always been the epitome of pure wilderness, an emerald of volcanic origin in the Mediterranean. 1900 meters of coastline and an infinite maze of offshore islands. But …
VIDEO. Ils sont sur Terre depuis au moins 450 millions d’années : savez-vous vraiment ce que sont les champignons ? Les champignons ont colonisé tous les milieux, qu’ils soient terrestres …
Wildlife corridor is a road to survival for animals in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest Photo: Eric Gevaert/Shutterstock Noel Kirkpatrick Brazil’s Atlantic Forest once covered around 330 million acres, a swath of …