How old is planet Earth?

How old is Earth? Our planet’s age is known from a variety of sources, from rocks on our own planet to ones from the moon.

Effort to bring back the Tasmanian tiger builds steam

Colossal, the company founded to try to restore the mammoth to the Arctic tundra, has also decided to tackle a number of other species that have gone extinct relatively recently: the dodo and the thylacine. Because of significant differences in…

Meet the winners of Nikon’s 2024 photomicrography contest

A stunning image of differentiated mouse brain tumor cells has won the 2024 Nikon Small World photomicrography contest, yielding valuable insight into how degenerate diseases like Alzheimer’s and ALS can arise from disruption in the cytoskeleton of brain cells. The…

Excessive news consumption predicts increased political hostility

According to new research published in Communication Research, people who obsessively consume news are more prone to political hostility. The study shows that those who lose themselves in political news are more likely to see opponents as enemies, leading to…

Let’s learn about animal cannibals

For humans, cannibalism is the stuff of horror movies. But in the animal kingdom, it’s more common than you might think. All kinds of animals have been caught chowing down on members of their own species. The practice seems especially…