Learn how tardigrades are able to tolerate extreme radiation with a unique protein that unwinds their DNA.

Learn more about the connection between nighttime light exposure and heart disease, and how you can help protect yourself.

Learn more about Maya daykeepers and how they created lunar calendar tables to predict celestial events.

Learn more about bowhead whales and how they routinely see out their 200th birthday — and this DNA-repair protein might just be how.

Learn more about the ways viral infections can impact people with and without chronic diseases.

Learn how scientists uncovered a surprising link between long-term melatonin use and heart failure in chronic insomnia patients.

Learn more about protein intake and how, even though we need protein in our diets, too much can snuff out other nutrients.

Learn about two black hole mergers in 2024 that experts revisited with new information from gravitational waves, confirming theories made by Albert Einstein.

Learn more about the prediction that larger space objects are coming our way during the 2032 and 2036 Taurid meteor showers.

Learn about the crayon-like tools made by Neanderthals during the Middle Paleolithic and how these objects likely prove the existence of a complex Neanderthal culture.

Learn how the legendary “Dueling Dinosaurs” fossil revealed that a supposed teenage Tyrannosaurus rex was actually a full-grown Nanotyrannus — changing what we know about tyrant evolution.

Periods of peace and wealth allowed people to invest more in the afterlife, leaving behind a lasting record of cultural and environmental history.

Learn more about the blue dogs in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone and what is behind the mystery of their blue fur.

Learn about the new deep-sea species discovered in the Southern Ocean, including a "death-ball" sponge that uses a deadly method to trap prey.

Learn how microbeads made from green tea polyphenols, vitamin E, and seaweed could help break down fats without the negative side effects that can come from GLP-1 agonists.

Meet the Chinese water deer, a rare species with remarkably long tusks that now roam parts of the U.K. after escaping from zoos nearly a century ago.

Learn more about how the search for the Endurance resulted in the discovery of a complex icefish nest neighborhood hidden under hundreds of meters of ice.

Learn more about the benefits of compression socks, and how they aren’t just for medical patients; they can be for office workers and bartenders alike.

Learn how MIT researchers uncovered how our brains try to clean themselves mid-day, costing us attention in the process.

Learn about vampire spiders and their love of human blood, which they're able to salvage from blood-carrying mosquitoes.

Learn more about the many smells of death and why the human brain evolved to recognize them.

Learn how missing just one amino acid, fruit flies reprogram their senses to detect the microbes that can help them recover.

Learn more about Epiatheracerium itjilik, the Arctic rhino species that is the northernmost rhino ever found.

Learn how many suns exist in the Milky Way and how to understand how many sun-like stars are out there could help us understand how many Earth-like planets there are, too.