Browsing: Lens_biology

Any cup you sip from could provide a sample bearing your DNA. dohtoor via Shutterstock Almost everywhere you go, you leave a bit of yourself behind—a hair, a fingernail clipping, a bit of skin, a few skin cells from your lips on a drinking cup. For a long time, that trace of you was little […]

How a “speed gene” test is stirring up horse racing and athletics.

Precious stones hold the stories of continents, oceans, and cultures.

Why scientists question the longstanding plan to merge the Dead Sea and the Red Sea.

Galapagos Finches are famous, yet Darwin learned more about evolution from the plants.

Wheelers and dealers have run wild for millions of years.

Robots are infiltrating insect, fish, and bird communities—and seizing control.

Around the world, people are living longer, healthier lives than ever before. One area this is most visible is in the number of centenarians, or people living to the age of 100. In 1840, there were 90 centenarians in the United States—one for every 189,000 people—according to United States Census Bureau records. Today, there are […]

There might be a little synesthesia in each of us.

Imagine a bowl of half-cooked beans coated in a layer of fibrous, white mold. Dotted across the surface of the mold are little black and blue spores. It smells faintly of ammonia. Sound appetizing? It might seem too much like the remnants of last week’s edamame, but that moldy bean cake, or tempeh, is a […]