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Your Breathing Is Unique and Can Be Used to ID You Like a Fingerprint

Your breath can tell a lot more about you that you thought.

This Self-Assembling Living Worm Tower Might Be the Most Bizarre Escape Machine

The worm tower behaves like a superorganism.

Scientists Created an STD Fungus That Kills Malaria-Carrying Mosquitoes After Sex

Researchers engineer a fungus that kills mosquitoes during mating, halting malaria in its tracks

Scientists Made a Battery Powered by Probiotics That's Completely Biodegradable

Scientists have built a battery powered by yogurt microbes that dissolves after use.

These Bacteria Exhale Electricity and Could Help Fight Climate Change

Some E. coli can survive by pushing out electrons instead of using oxygen

This Shape-Shifting Parasite Eats Human Cells and Wears Their Proteins as a Disguise

An amoeba that kills 70,000 people a year is finally yielding its secrets.

Queen bees can hibernate underwater for several days without drowning

This could be a very useful skill in light of current climate events.

The First Teeth Grew on the Skin of 460-Million-Year-Old Fish and Were Never Meant for Chewing

Teeth may have started as ancient sensory tools, not tools for eating.

Plants can "hear" pollinators and make more nectar when there's buzzing around

Plants are not just passive organisms. Snapdragons may not hear exactly, but they respond to pollinator vibrations.

This Injectable Ink Lets Doctors 3D Print Tissues Inside the Body Using Only Ultrasound

New 3D printing technique makes it possible to heal injuries and damaged tissues from inside without surgery.

China's Tiangong space station has some bacteria that are unknown to science

These aren't the first bacteria to be discovered in space but they are particularly well-adapted for space station life.

Wild Chimpanzees Use Medicine To Treat Each Other’s Wounds

Chimpanzees don’t just treat their own injuries, but care for others, too.

Meet Mosura fentoni, the Bug-Eyed Cambrian Weirdo with Three Eyes and Gills in Its Tail

Evolution went strong in this one.

3,700 Hours with Wild Chimps Reveal Evolutionary Roots of Attachment

This study is about chimps. But in a way, it's also about us.

How Some Flowers Evolved the Grossest Stench — and Why Flies Love It

Flowers keep making the same mutation time and time again.

This car-sized "millipede" was built like a tank — and had the face to go with it

A Carboniferous beast is showing its face.

Spruce Trees Are Like Real-Life Ents That Anticipate Solar Eclipse Hours in Advance and Sync Up

Trees sync their bioelectric signals like they're talking to each other.

This Bizarre Bacterium Conducts Electricity Like a Wire

Conducting electricity as a lifestyle.

Humans are really bad at healing. But that also helped us survive

It's a quirk tied to our thick skin, sweat glands, and sparse body hair.

The world’s largest wildlife crossing is under construction in LA, and it’s no less than a miracle

But we need more of these massive wildlife crossings.

The "Bone Collector" Caterpillar Disguises Itself With the Bodies of Its Victims and Lives in Spider Webs

This insect doesn't play with its food. It just wears it.

Scientists put nanotattoos on frozen tardigrades and that could be a big deal

Tardigrades just got cooler.

Scientists Rediscover a Lost Piece of Female Anatomy That May Play a Crucial Role in Fertility

Scientists reexamine a forgotten structure near the ovary and discover surprising functions

The World's Oldest Known Ant Is A 113-Million-Year-Old Hell Ant with Scythe Jaws

A remarkable find for ant history was made, not in the field but in a drawer.

Your Cells Can Hear You — And It Could Be Important for Fat Cells

Researchers explore the curious relationship between sound and gene expression in cell cultures.

Scientists Create a 'Power Bar' for Bees to Replace Pollen and Keep Colonies Alive Without Flowers

Researchers unveil a man-made “Power Bar” that could replace pollen for stressed honey bee colonies.

First-Ever Footage Captures a Living Colossal Squid—And It’s Just a Baby

A century after its discovery, the elusive giant finally reveals itself on camera.

Yeast in Space? Scientists Just Launched a Tiny Lab to See If We Can Create Food in Orbit

Microbes can brew food in space — a game-changer for astronauts.

This Chewing Gum Can Destroy 95 Percent of Flu and Herpes Viruses

Viruses had enough fun in our mouths, it's time to wipe them out.

This Tokyo Lab Built a Machine That Grows Real Chicken Meat

A lab in Tokyo just grew a piece of chicken that not only looks like the real thing — it tastes like it too.

Why the Right Way To Fly a Rhino Is Upside Down

Black rhinos are dangling from helicopters—because it's what’s best for them.

Same-Sex Behavior Is Surprisingly Common in Animals — Humans Are No Exception

Some people claim same-sex attraction is "unnatural." Biology says otherwise

4,000 Years Ago, Nubian Women Were Carrying Loads—and Babies—Using Head Straps

Elite women in ancient Nubia carried babies using head straps, don't you dare to try this at home.

The secret to making plant-based milk tastier and healthier: bacteria

Instead of masking off flavors with sugar, salt, or artificial additives, companies can let bacteria do the work.

In 2013, dolphins in Florida starved. Now, we know why

The culprit is a very familiar one. It's us.

Researchers can't rule out the possibility of life existing on Titan

It wouldn't be very much, but it's exciting anyway.

A 97-Year-Old Tortoise Just Became a First-Time Mom at the Philadelphia Zoo

Mommy has been living at the Philadelphia Zoo for 90 years, and waited until old age to experience motherhood.

Birds Are Changing Color in Cities. Here’s Why

Birds in cities are getting flashier — literally.

Horses Have a Genetic Glitch That Turned Them Into Super Athletes

This one gene mutation helped horses evolve unmatched endurance.

Scientists Created a Chymeric Mouse Using Billion-Year-Old Genes That Predate Animals

A mouse was born using prehistoric genes and the results could transform regenerative medicine.

Scientists Found a 380-Million-Year-Old Trick in Velvet Worm Slime That Could Lead To Recyclable Bioplastic

Velvet worm slime could offer a solution to our plastic waste problem.

Researchers Wake Up Algae That Went Dormant Before the First Pyramids

Scientists have revived 7,000-year-old algae from Baltic Sea sediments, pushing the limits of resurrection ecology.

A Fossil So Strange Scientists Think It’s From a Completely New Form of Life

This towering mystery fossil baffled scientists for 180 Years and it just got weirder.

Your Gum Is Shedding Microplastics into Your Saliva

One gram of chewing gum can release up to 600 microplastic particles into your body.

Octopus rides the world's fastest shark and nobody knows what's going on

A giant octopus rode a mako shark. No one knows why.

Scientists Discover Cells That Defy Death and Form New Life After the Body Dies. Enter The "Third State"

Some cells reorganize into living 'bots' long after the organism perished.

Some 31 million years ago, these iguanas rafted over 5,000 miles of ocean

New research reveals an extraordinary journey across the Pacific that defies what we thought was possible.

Magnolias are so ancient they're pollinated by beetles — because bees didn't exist yet

Before bees, there were beetles

Venomous love: These male octopuses inject venom into females so they can escape being eaten

In the perilous world of cephalopod romance, male blue-lined octopuses have evolved a shocking strategy to survive mating.

Yellowstone Bison Made a Stunning Comeback. Now, After 120 Years of Conservation, The Bison Form a Single Breeding Population

The bison at the Yellowstone National Park are gearing up for a more genetically diverse population.

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