Humans may be able to sense the magnetic field of the earth
Humans may just have become members of a very eclectic club. Fruit flies, homing pigeons, bats, mole-rat, and turtles are among the diverse creatures unified by an intriguing characteristic: the…
The lessons learnt from the lamprey’s spinal cord regeneration
You could be forgiven for never having heard of the lamprey, an obscure lineage of fish that shared a common ancestor with humans approximately 550 million years ago. In fact,…
The Great Mystery of Sleep
For such a fundamental and routine feature of our existence, sleep is something that we know relatively little about. Though it has been studied since the 1900s, scientists still do…
Boiling a Frog: an Evolutionary Perspective on Why We Are So Bad at Tackling Climate Change
You may have previously come across the fable in which two unfortunate amphibians are dropped into two separate pots of water. In the first instance, the water is already boiling and…
The mysterious case of the sea walnut’s disappearing anus
It is a fair assumption that you have not come across the phrase “transient anus” before. At least, no obvious context comes to mind. The phrase is new to biology…
