SCIENCE
The Ouroboros within: stem cells
The biology of self-sustaining systems
Four fun facts about snakes
Deep in the coal mines of La Guajira, Colombia, students unearthed a skeleton of epic proportions. The gigantic fossils were initially thought to belong to a crocodilian. They were wrong. The fossils were the remnants of a snake—the largest snake to ever inhabit this earth: titanoboa. Estimated to be 42 ...
Plasmids
The flexible backbone of molecular biology
HeLa cells
Medical advancement, ethical misstep, or both?
Echoing silence
The science of the bystander effect
Where fluorescence microscopy cannot reach
Raman spectroscopy is the new black
Tales of the megalodon
Could the monster shark still live?
Grandma was wrong (this time)
The truth behind these common old wives' tales
The prion
An immortal pathogen
What’s the deal with the Northern Star?
Freaky freaky Cepheid variables In act III, scene I of Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar, Caesar says, “I am constant as the northern star.” Well, Caesar is wrong: it turns out that the northern star isn’t as constant as he thinks it is. It belongs to the family of Cepheid variables—the ...