Poison dart frogs evolved so that the poison they use to deter predators doesn't hurt their own bodies.

Quaking aspen trees are aggressive plants that will crowd out conifers in their need for sunlight.

Durian (Durio zibethinus) is a fruit from southeast Asia, about the size of a melon with a thorny rind, and notable for its potent smell. People have described it as smelling like garbage or rotting meat. This isn’t an exaggeration. For example in Malaysia, many places such as hotels and airports have a ban on […]

In May of 2018, the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security addressed a pandemic outbreak known as Clade X. A panel of health experts and current or former policy makers discovered that Clade X was a novel pathogen engineered by a group with the goal of reducing world population to pre-Industrial levels. Clade X quickly […]

Scientists studied how a glass's shape might influence the rate at which someone consumes beer.

Within the last century, saltwater steelhead trout evolved to live in freshwater.

Perhaps imagining someone else with the qualities you admire is one way to develop them in yourself.

In 2018, researchers found that the amount of first humans that crossed the land bridge from Siberia over to Alaska was much smaller than people originally assumed.

A recent study found that playing games such as Tetris within six hours of being in a car accident could ease the rate of intrusive memories due to trauma from the event.

I know that humans and chimps share something like 98 percent of our DNA. But what does this really mean?