About half a billion years ago most of the vertebrates on earth had tails, but migration from trees to a more land-based environment is believed to have hastened our tail loss.
The frog is alive, AKA not decaying in death, and yet it has some fungi hitching a ride on its body. Obviously scientists are baffled.
Self-described “public health specialist” Sam Barefoot used an at-home testing kit to test just how much bacteria is potentially found on silverware from a restaurant.
Scientists have found a couple of living, organic robots able to reproduce in a way never seen before from any animal or plant on the planet.
Do you really want to live forever? Science may have found a way to keep brains alive long after you die, but it does come with drawbacks.
Do you sleep with your mobile phone near your bed? This 9th grade experiment will change where you put your phone the next time you sleep. Here is a biology experiment is attracting large amounts of international attention.
So, we don’t know our bodies as well as we thought. According to scientist, Harminder Dua at The University of Nottingham, a new human body part has been found. But you’ll never be able to clap your eyes on yours. The new classification comes in the form of a layer in the eye. The appropriately-named “Dua Layer” […]
Neuroscientists have discovered that using Facebook has a measurable impact on the size of particular areas of the brain. The results of a recent study show that the more Facebook friends you have, the bigger and denser become the three parts of your brain which are associated with the power to socialise. It’s unclear whether by ‘socialise’ they mean really, in real life. But maybe.