2+ day, 2+ hour ago   (1294+ words) In the mosses and lichens of the world – the in-between places, where living conditions rapidly fluctuate – lives a tiny animal with an extraordinary survival skill. No, not tardigrades – it's their much weirder housemate, the bdelloid rotifer. Just like tardigrades, bdelloid…...

1+ week, 10+ hour ago   (377+ words) Imagine being 50 and watching your biological age fall to 45....

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (249+ words) Among mere mortals, a select few have an incredible gift for longevity – it's something we only see in about 0.01 percent of the world's population....

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (510+ words) Aging is inevitable, but it's certainly not consistent....

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (621+ words) One of the biggest existential questions an individual can ask is "What makes me, me?" Identical twins have near-identical genetics, yet can still develop quite different personalities – about as perfect a demonstration as nature could offer that DNA isn't destiny....

3+ week, 18+ hour ago   (778+ words) To replicate information, life usually has fairly straightforward ways of doing things....

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (660+ words) Our brains comprise 86 billion neurons and the trillions of connections between them, whipping up an orchestrated storm of electricity and chemicals that pulse within a 3-pound lump of jellified fat, protein, and water. The intricate biological machine that defines us…...

4+ week, 12+ hour ago   (316+ words) Whether waking up to a slobber-soaked ribbon draped across one's face or an unfortunately massacred mouse 'gifted' in one's slippers, anyone intimate with a cat can attest that their tiny tiger is evolutionarily built to hunt....