Coral sex is a wonder to behold. On a summer night, always around a full moon, corals somehow all know to release billions of sperm and eggs into the sea, turning the water into a pink miasma of sex. This spawning relies on precise environmental cues, which could get scrambled in climate change. That’s why researchers are trying to get them to spawn in the lab. Read more…
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Look At These Beautiful Little Corals Grown Like Popsicles In A Lab
A team of researchers from the University of Virginia just made scientific history : They figured out how to turn stem cells into full blown fish embryos. In other words, scientists can now control embryonic development, a key to being able to grow organs and even entire organism from stem cells. Read more…
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Stem Cell Researchers Just Figured Out How to Create New Embryos
Why does the zebra have stripes? It’s not a riddle — scientists say they’ve actually found an answer. And no, it’s not camouflage for hiding under a slatted roof. The stripes actually serve as an insect repellent. Read more…
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We Finally Know Why Zebras Have Stripes
Criminals who inadvertently leave traces of their DNA at the crime scene now have something more to worry about. By isolating 24 genetic variants, researchers have developed a computer program that can construct surprisingly accurate 3D models of facial features. Read more…
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Now Police Can Reconstruct Your Face From DNA Evidence
If you’re not the type to tiptoe around the truth with your kids, Rachel Ciavarella’s incredibly-detailed plush anglerfish ‘toy’ called Morris is the perfect way to give your children a somewhat disturbing crash course in anatomy. Read more…
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Teach Kids Frank Lessons About Anatomy With This Inside-Out Anglerfish
This monochrome image of living tissue has some extremely unwelcome visitors lurking within it. Taken from some of the first ever 3D images of HIV at work , those little blue circles show the virus infecting the surrounding cells. Read more…
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This Is What HIV Looks Like When It Infects Living Cells
This is a game changer, folks. Whereas mining stem cells has been either an ethical quandary or a months-long affair, scientist can now turn any old blood cells into stem cells in just 30 seconds— by dipping them in acid . Read more…
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Scientists Use Acid to Turn Blood Cells into Stem Cells in 30 Seconds
You’re looking at Ozobranchus jantseanus , a little leech found in East Asia. It doesn’t look much, but it has a very special skill indeed: it can survive for up to 24 hours immersed in liquid nitrogen . Read more…
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This Leech Can Survive For 24 Hours in Liquid Nitrogen
Despite its unassuming looks and gentle temperament, the humble red breasted robin ( Erithacus rubecula ) boasts a superhero-like ability. They can see magnetic fields, giving them an almost perfect sense of direction. Read more…
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Robins Can Actually See Magnetic Fields (But Only in One Eye)
Blue Screen of Insomnia. Designers Chris Noessel and Nathan Shedroff analyzed screen colors in tons of science fiction movies, and concluded that future computer screens would be tinted blue. Which is bad news, since our eyes are hypersensitive to blue light, and it keeps us from sleeping . Read more…
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Blue Screen of Insomnia.