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Sell Lab-Grown Meat in Alabama and You Could Go to Jail

Alabama has become the second US state to ban the sale of cultivated meat. The bill, signed...

A weaker magnetic field may have paved the way for marine life to go big

Earth’s magnetic field protects life from harmful cosmic radiation. But sometime between about 590 million and 565...

Getting wild mosquitoes back to the lab alive takes a custom backpack

This backpack isn’t typical hiking gear. Look inside and instead of water and snacks, you’ll see swarms...

City Trees Save Lives

The humble tree has long protected humans from sickness and even death—and in the modern city, it’s...

How Not to Get Brain-Eating Worms and Mercury Poisoning

Are you experiencing unexplained memory lapses or brain fog? Ever considered that you may have a parasite...

NASA’s budget woes put ambitious space research at risk

Dreams of exploring the cosmos have crashed up against the harsh reality of budget cuts in the...

A hidden danger lurks beneath Yellowstone

Mount Ontake in Japan rises 3,067 meters above sea level — a windswept giant standing head and...

This snake goes to extremes to play dead — and it appears to pay off

To avoid becoming a meal, some animals simply fake it until they make it. And fake deaths...

7 Best Clitoral Suction Toys (2024): Suction Vibrators, Air Pulse Toys, and More

Designed to simulate the sucking or tapping sensation of oral sex, clitoral suction toys are a relatively...

Lampreys have ‘fight or flight’ cells, challenging ideas about nervous system evolution

With terrifyingly sharp teeth arranged around a circular mouth, lampreys look about as primitive a vertebrate as...

Boeing’s Starliner Is Finally Ready to Launch a NASA Crew Into Space

At long last, Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft is ready to launch humans to space. Tonight, the vehicle is...

As the Arctic tundra warms, soil microbes likely will ramp up CO2 production

Climate change is warming the Arctic tundra about four times faster than the rest of the planet....
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