Recently, a new study published in the journal ZooKeys has claimed to have found the most dangerous location to live in Earth’s history.¹...

Have Trinidadian guppies learned evasive maneuvers from Spanish bullfighters? Recent research published in the journal Current Biology¹ reports...

Pangolins just received an odd form of political protection.¹ Found in southeast Asia and Africa, these creatures look like a cross between...

In 1610, Galileo Galilei aimed his telescope at Jupiter and discovered the four largest of the planet’s 95 known moons. He recognized them as...

Transposable elements (transposons or TEs) are a specialized group of DNA sequences that can transpose or change positions in the genome. Some scientists...

Figure 1. Some typical examples of different radiohalos found in granitic rocks, from volume 2 of the Radioisotopes and the Age of the Earth...