WOODS HOLE, Mass. — In case you were wondering, Kristin Gribble is not a basher of fruit flies or roundworms. She wants to be clear: She bears no ill will toward those invertebrates so often studied ...
Imagine a world where life pauses for tens of thousands of years, only to resume as if no time had passed - much like Captain America waking up after 72 years. Scientists in Siberia have done just ...
This podcast originally aired on August 17, 2021. Karen Hopkin: This is Scientific American's Science, Quickly. I'm Karen Hopkin. What has one head, one foot and one heck of an origin story? No, it’s ...
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A rotifer got buried in the Siberian permafrost. 24,000 years later, it came back to life
In the dark, untouched areas of the planet are the most tough and resilient species of creatures you could ever imagine. Rotifers are microscopic animals typically found in freshwater, and thin layers ...
Bdelloid rotifers are multicellular animals so small you need a microscope to see them. Despite their size, they're known for being tough, capable of surviving through drying, freezing, starvation, ...
How a group of animals can abandon sex, yet produce more than 460 species over evolutionary time, became a little less mysterious this week with the publication of the complete genome of a bdelloid ...
James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...
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