Scientists recovered 40,000-year-old RNA from a frozen mammoth, revealing which genes were active in its final hours. This changes everything we thought we knew about extinct species.
Your phone battery isn't failing because of bad luck. Here's the chemistry behind why lithium-ion batteries lose capacity and what actually extends their lifespan.
Beneath every forest lies a vast network of fungal threads connecting trees in a biological internet. They use it to share resources and warnings.
At the bottom of the sea, no sunlight penetrates. But darkness isn't the strangest thing down there. It's the creatures that evolved to make their own light.
In 2025, a child was born who was conceived in 1994 to one set of parents and born to another. The embryo had been frozen longer than both of the child's new parents had been alive.
Scientists channeled bioelectrical signals from fungi through a robotic arm, allowing mushrooms to play music, generate poetry, and paint self-portraits. The implications go far beyond novelty.
In a remote corner of northern Quebec lies a rocky outcrop that dates back 4.16 billion years, the only surviving fragment from Earth's violent, molten youth.