Articles by

Jude Coleman

How insects can help catch rhino poachers

In 1988, police officers in Australia came for Ian Dadour. Not because the entomologist was under arrest,...

These sea creatures can fuse their bodies

In a Frankenstein-y feat, a small, gelatinous sea creature can merge its body with a neighbor’s. The...

These Stone Age humans were more gatherer than hunter

Unlike many of their mostly meat-eating peers, a group of late Stone Age hunter-gatherers living in what...

Heat waves cause more illness and death in U.S. cities with fewer trees

In the United States, urban neighborhoods with primarily white residents tend to have more trees than...

Some mysteries remain about why dogs wag their tails

When it comes to tail wagging among dogs, some questions still hound researchers. We know that domesticated...

A fiber inspired by polar bears traps heat as well as down feathers do

The Arctic’s extreme cold is no match for a polar bear’s super-insulating fur. Humans could one...

10 billion snow crabs have disappeared off the Alaskan coast. Here’s why

From 2018 to 2021, an estimated 10 billion snow crabs disappeared from the eastern Bering Sea off...

Here’s why some Renaissance artists egged their oil paintings

Art historians often wish that Renaissance painters could shell out secrets of the craft. Now, scientists may...