What’s Really Happening When a Cuttlefish Seems to Vanish
Their camouflage seems almost magical, but scientists have observed some tricks the cephalopods use to blend in with their surroundings.
View ArticleWhat Benjamin Franklin Learned While Fighting Counterfeiters
Long before there were Benjamins in circulation, the founding father was all about experimenting with printing techniques as he worked on securing colonial printed currency.
View ArticleShe Can See the World in Colors He Can’t Even Imagine
Male zebra longwing butterfly vision sticks to a duller pallette, perhaps for mating reasons. The genes that explain this may help unlock how differences between sexes evolve.
View ArticleBrainless Jellyfish Demonstrate Learning Ability
Because box jellyfish are so distantly related to other animals, the research findings could hint at how the ability to learn first evolved.
View ArticleIf You’ve Ever Heard a Voice That Wasn’t There, This Could Be Why
With a ghostly finger in a lab, researchers coaxed people to hear phantom voices.
View ArticleA Hairy Truth About Your Sense of Touch
Researchers showed that cells in your hair follicles release important chemical messengers in response to gentle touches to your skin.
View ArticleThe Ancient Back Story of the Slimiest Animal in the Sea
Researchers found that the slime eel, or hagfish, known for deluging predators with mucus, tripled the size of its genome hundreds of millions of years ago.
View ArticleA New Creature Emerges From a Forest Drowned by the Gulf of Mexico
Scientists discovered a species off the Alabama coast that is part of group of mussels never before seen at such shallow depths.
View ArticleUna nueva especie de mejillones es descubierta en el Golfo de México
Se cree que entre el 75 y el 90 por ciento de las especies que viven en el océano aún no son descubiertas. Unos científicos han encontrado una nueva en la costa de Alabama: unos mejillones tan finos...
View ArticleDaddy Longlegs Have Been Hiding Extra Eyes From Us
The arachnids, which are not spiders, were thought to have only two eyes, compared with many more on spiders.
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