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- Hidden Galaxy Harbors Organic Chemistry Factory THE NUCLEUS of galaxy IRAS 07251-0248 sits buried beneath such vast amounts of gas and dust that conventional telescopes can barely glimpse what's happening inside. Hardly the sort of place you'd expect to find abundant organic molecules. The…
- The Hormone That Rewrites Pain THE MICE WITH lumbar spine instability shouldn't have been moving much. Their vertebrae, surgically destabilized to mimic the kind of degeneration that afflicts millions of people with chronic back pain, had developed the telltale signs of the condition: porous,…
- City Lights Are Messing With Sharks’ Internal Clocks The nurse sharks swimming through Miami’s glowing coastal waters at night aren’t getting much sleep. Their blood tells the story: melatonin levels suppressed, circadian rhythms disrupted, all because the city never really goes dark. For the…
- Tiny Dinosaur Rewrites 70 Million Years of Evolution The bones were so small that at first glance they looked like they might belong to juveniles. But Fidel Torcida Fernández-Baldor of the Dinosaur Museum of Salas de los Infantes reckoned otherwise. Scattered across the Burgos Province site in…
- Bat Caves In Cambodia Hide Clues To A Pig Pandemic’s Mysterious Origins The Battambang bat caves draw tourists from around the world. Each evening, thousands of bats pour from the limestone cliffs in swirling clouds, a spectacle that fills the Cambodian sky. What visitors don’t see is the…
