The protective caps on human chromosomes shorten by 50 to 100 base pairs every time a cell divides, and once they run out the cell either sleeps forever or self-destructs. The same countdown that ages tissue is one of the body's strongest defences against cancer.
A team led by the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks has mapped Earth's arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi for the first time: 110 quadrillion kilometres of living thread in the top 15 centimetres of soil, roughly 40 per cent of it beneath grassland.
A casual glance at satellite imagery revealed evidence of an ancient cosmic collision that had gone unrecognized for nearly 400 million years, hidden in plain sight beneath Quebec's forests.
A gelatinous predator that has outlived every other ribbon worm in captivity is forcing scientists to reconsider how long these mysterious deep-sea hunters can actually live.
A new geodetic analysis combines satellite ranging, GPS and orbital data to trace the millimetre-scale annual offset between Earth's mass centre and its solid surface.
The threshold sits at two metres a second. Below it no fish bolted. Above it they did, and the bar jacks filmed hunting on the same reef reached fast-approach speeds of 2.7 to 9.0 metres a second.
The 1929 Grand Banks cable failures became an accidental instrument array, allowing Bruce Heezen and Maurice Ewing to reconstruct a fast turbidity current moving across the Atlantic seabed.
A mysterious sound recorded in 1949 remained unidentified for 77 years—until scientists realized they'd captured the oldest known whale song, decades before anyone understood these creatures sang at all.
The state's solution to stocking remote alpine lakes: strap a compartmentalized tank to a Cessna and let gravity do the work.
A single escaped silkworm colony became North America's costliest forest pest—but no one noticed the catastrophe unfolding for two decades.
Scientists have found a pond so saturated with salt that nothing we know should survive in it—yet life does.
Tool use, once thought to be rare among fish, now appears far more widespread than scientists realized—and these wrasse are surprisingly particular about their choice of anvil.
A Depression-era soil fix that blanketed millions of Southern acres became an environmental bogeyman—but the numbers tell a very different story than the legend.
A September 2026 policy brief from the UN University warns that electricity infrastructure with 15 to 20 year lifespans is being approved on weather records that no longer describe the climate the assets will operate in — even as the IEA projects renewables will nearly triple by 2030.
Thousands of hidden microphones are revealing how California's birds navigate fire—and offering clues to help them survive it.
Unprecedented seismic blanket over Kilauea is revealing what happens inside a volcano moments before it awakens.
