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A collection of 28 posts

biology

White on Black

What colour are zebra stripes, and why do they have them?

technology

Mouse with a Human Ear

Fixing machines is easy; fixing living creatures is hard. Or is it the other way round?

biology

Brother From Another Mother

Identical people can be entirely unrelated

psychology

A Restful Trance

What link exists between hypnotic drugs, sleep-related issues and hypnosis?

nature

Midnight Hunt

An aardvark’s night out — and a look into its ancestry.

light

All the Light

Nature has many ways of producing colour. Are some of them coming soon to a printer near you?

biology

Slosh Mitigation

Why don’t woodpeckers get concussions?

biology

Eel at Home

One thousand leagues into the sea: a marine biologist’s quest for the birthplace of the freshwater eel.

biology

Ocean Genes

We’ve been living on land for thousands of years, but we never completely left the ocean.

immortality

Forever Young

From Greek mythology to Turritopsis jellyfish: an investigation into immortality.

Could Dragons Exist?

Darwin and Dragons

How to make a dragon in just a few (hundred million) short years

Could Dragons Exist?

Foraging with Fire

How would dragons avoid burning themselves and their habitats?

Could Dragons Exist?

A Scorching Symbiosis

One special type of bacteria could be the key to dragonfire.

Could Dragons Exist?

The Biochemistry of Breathing Fire

Could dragons do what no known organism has done before?

Could Dragons Exist?

An Anatomy for Aviation

Large animals have trouble flying. How would a dragon pull it off?

Could Dragons Exist?

The Science of Flight and Firebreath

Are dragons feasible? Let’s rewind evolution to find out.

bioinformatics

Genetic Sequencing

It took thirteen years to first sequence our DNA. Thanks to bioinformatics, we can now do it in a week.

cancer

Plant Cancer

Plants spend all day in the sun without sunscreen. Some trees live for thousands of years. Why don’t they die from cancer?

Microbiology

The Hot Life

Hot springs, colourful microbes: surviving in a world that’s unique, beautiful, and hostile

biology

Cheese Crystals

White spots are good: are you throwing away a perfectly good cheese?

biology

Left Brain, Right Brain

Are we basically two people at once?

Aliens

Looking for Life

Nobody’s found signs of alien life yet. So why do they keep on looking?

biology

Riding the Sky

They talk about Life on other planets, but have we even seen the limits of life here on Earth?

biology

Sleeping Beauty, Underground

Will the leguminous Prince find her? And what root will he take?

biology

Exile by Oxygen

Some organisms never quite worked out how to live with it. This is the story of where they went.