Science
Scientists Just Made Plastic Out of Salmon Sperm
Care for coffee served in a bioplastic cup, made from salmon sperm?
Climate Scientists on the Most Shocking Thing They’ve Seen
“When you walk under a tree in one of these heat waves... You see dead birds on the ground.”
Arecibo’s Legacy Lives On, a Year After Its Collapse
Space scientists Abel Méndez, Génesis Ferrer, and Arianna Colón Cesaní spoke with Motherboard about the incalculable impact of Puerto Rico’s Arecibo Observatory.
Government Scientists Recover Hypothesized Crystal From Deep Within Earth
The rare mineral, long hypothesized but never seen, was recovered from a diamond that emerged from the Earth's lower mantle.
Facebook Ads Told Me To Become a Certified Cryptozoologist, So I Did
How a sketchy online degree program led me on an IRL quest for legendary creatures during the pandemic.
Ancient Penis Worms Shrank Into a Shell When Threatened, Study Finds
Life’s hard when you’re a wee penis worm roaming a seabed full of predators, unless you snag yourself a protective shell.
Family Finds Dead Grandfather Being Dissected at Public Event
The man’s body was found being autopsied live in a Marriott ballroom where people paid up to $500 to watch.
This Doctor Created a Sticky Condom That Can Be Used on Both Penises and Vaginas
The condom’s creator describes it as a “PPE for sexual encounters.”
How Breast Cancer Research and Treatment Has Evolved
"We understand much more what's happening at a molecular level" than we did 15 to 20 years ago.
These Remarkably Preserved Chinese Mummies Have a Surprise Ancestry
The mummies belonged to a population that is genetically isolated but culturally cosmopolitan.
They Studied Bats to Prevent Pandemics. Now They’re Blamed for Potentially Causing One.
The search for COVID-19’s origins has put risky bat research under the microscope.
Scientists Have Discovered Traces of Stars From the Dawn of Time
The first stars formed using products from the Big Bang, and learning more about them can teach us about how the universe as we know it came to be.