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Why does losing weight often feel like an uphill battle? Physician Katherine Saunders unpacks how our bodies are wired to store fat, revealing that obesity isn’t...
You’re familiar with the story: a sperm and an egg meet to create an embryo, which has the potential to give rise to new life. But...
A global team of 287 researchers have combined over 100 terabytes of data to create a full map of a fruit fly’s brain, which includes 139,255...
There’s a simple way to increase your cat’s happiness, says animal behaviorist Nicky Trevorrow. She explains the importance of play for our feline friends — and...
A newly-discovered fish in the Red Sea has menacing teeth and a sinister face, hiding in coral to strike at unsuspecting prey. But the grumpy dwarfgoby...
Tartrazine, commonly called Yellow 5, is a dye that was discovered in the 1880s. It’s been used for food and cosmetics for generations… but it turns...
We know that many different animals have shockingly high levels of intelligence — but how many truly have consciousness? A group of scientists and academics thinks...
If you expected that a global pandemic would give animals an opportunity to thrive, well… we did, too. But a sophisticated tracking study showed that animal...
Imagine a Slim Jim that’s 20 feet long and weighs 200 pounds — that’s basically a python. And in Thailand and Vietnam, python farming is yielding...
Biomedical researcher Sonia Vallabh’s life was turned upside down when she learned she had the genetic mutation for a rare and fatal illness, prion disease, that...
