1+ week, 2+ day ago   (973+ words) Audience members toss paper airplanes during the 2025 Ig Nobel Prize award ceremony in Boston, Mass. Robert F. Bukaty/AP hide caption This year's Ig Nobel Prizes — which are awarded for humorous, yet thought-provoking research — have been announced, but not on their…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago   (477+ words) At the same time, it was reported just yesterday that Stanford University researchers have used AI to create the first viruses unknown in nature. Project leader Brian Hie said, "Our study is a proof of concept showing for the first…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (618+ words) At Slippery Rock University, undergraduate students gain valuable research experiences and drive innovation working alongside faculty. Cooper Alleman, a junior chemistry major from Slippery Rock (Slippery Rock HS), is benefiting from this first-hand through an in-depth research project into alpha-synuclein,…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (776+ words) Home » Animals » How Do Animals Navigate Without GPS? The Secrets of Their Internal Compass Every single day, creatures great and small accomplish something we humans struggle to do even with a smartphone in hand: they find their way. Perfectly. Across…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (128+ words) Beyond their familiar role in translating light and shadow into vision, eyes hold a far more extraordinary capability. Within a songbird’s retina, nature seems to have embedded a quantum compass that interacts with the Earth’s magnetic field. This website may…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (684+ words) A surprisingly large number and diversity of bee species — 74 out of 96 tested — have magnetic properties, according to research my colleagues and I recently published in the journal Science Advances. Some animals are able to use iron-based magnetic compounds, such as…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (172+ words) Published 2:30 pm Monday, July 20, 2026 Mercer Island biology scholar Emma Li first struck gold at Harvard University and then she did it again in Lithuania. The 16-year-old Lakeside School of Seattle rising senior earned a gold medal while representing the United…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (447+ words) Mirage News LMU researchers have discovered an unusual three-way partnership between a ciliate, bacteria, and archaea. How do microorganisms orient themselves to find the optimal habitat? Scientists have thoroughly investigated so-called magnetotactic bacteria, which use the Earth's magnetic field as…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (598+ words) A surprisingly large number and diversity of bee species – 74 out of 96 tested – have magnetic properties, according to research my colleagues and I recently published in the journal Science Advances. Some animals are able to use iron-based magnetic compounds such as…...

2+ mon, 4+ day ago   (189+ words) Kanazawa (Japan): Researchers at the Nano Life Science Institute (WPI-NanoLSI) at Kanazawa University, the Institute for Molecular Science, and SOKENDAI have uncovered the hidden mechanism behind a molecular switch - a molecule that can change between different structural states in response…...