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Topic: Biology (page 4)

Water on a blue background (Getty Images/Jose A. Bernat Bacete)

The science of squirting

Troy Farah
MRSA super bug colonies on blood agar plate. (Getty Images/Rodolfo Parulan Jr)

The tide turns against superbugs

Troy Farah
(AlexTurton/Getty)

Why most embryos die after conception

Kathryn Kavanagh - The Conversation
Galapagos Tortoise (Getty Images/Mark Newman)

Animals hold the key to ultra-longevity

Steven N. Austad
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A Donald Trump supporter holding a QAnon flag (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Why facts don't change minds

Keith M. Bellizzi - The Conversation
Computer artwork of virus particles in the bloodstream. (Getty Images)

New Langya virus infects 35 in China

Matthew Rozsa
(Getty/Annabelle500)

The secret Soviet whale tale

Ryan Jones - The Conversation
Arctic polar bear and cubs in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (Getty/sarkophoto)

Polar bears are eating human garbage

Thomas Scott Smith - The Conversation
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Cell structure and mitochondrion (Getty Images/ SciePro/Science Photo Library)

When cells become "zombies"

Patricia Opresko, Ryan Barnes - The Conversation
Thor: Love and Thunder (Marvel Studios)

Screaming goats of "Thor" not fiction

Eric Schank
White Italian Greyhound puppy posing in front of a large mirror (Getty Images/Melissa Ross)

Can any animal pass the mirror test?

Nicole Karlis
The German cockroach (Blattella germanica) (Getty Images/ErikKarits)

Mutant roaches go on a sugar diet

Pamela Appea
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Prescription medication is strewn about, with pill bottles in the deep background. (Getty Images)

How drugs know where to go in the body

Tom Anchordoquy - The Conversation
Sperm (Getty Images/Irina Shatilova)

The sperm evolutionary arms race

Rebecca Coffey
Amazon rainforest, Brazil (Getty Images)

Biodiversity and climate change solution

Tara Lohan - The Revelator
A general view of Novavax vaccine vials as the Dutch Health Service Organization starts with the Novavax vaccination program on March 21, 2022 in The Hague, Netherlands. (Patrick van Katwijk/Getty Images)

The hard road for the Novavax vaccine

Arthur Allen, Sarah Jane Tribble - KFF Health News
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Plastic bottles and polystyrene floating in sea (Rosemary Calvert)

Superworms can eat styrofoam

Matthew Rozsa
Malaria vaccine (Getty Images/Hailshadow)

Why the malaria vaccine took 35 years

Pratik Pawar - Undark
Velociraptor dinosaur in lush green jungle (Getty Images/Chris Clor)

The warm-blooded dino debate — solved

Matthew Rozsa
A royal Bengal Tiger in its natural habitat (Getty Images/Abhishek Singh)

India's tigers entangled in a blame game

Niranjana Rajalakshmi - Food52
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Triceratops grazing on a magnolia tree next to cycas (Getty Images/Stocktrek Images)

When dinosaurs died, plants thrived

Matthew Rozsa
Artist interpretation: Tupandactylus imperator, a pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous Crato Formation of Brazil (Getty Images/Sergey Krasovskiy)

Pterosaurs had brightly colored feathers

Matthew Rozsa
Antibiotics are placed in petri dishes filled with bacteria. In the dish on the left the bacteria will not develop near the antibiotics. In the right petri dish, antibiotic resistant bacteria are growing. (Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Scientists record sounds from bacteria

Eric Schank
Easter eggs in the decorative nest (Getty Images/Vikusha)

What makes bird eggs so colorful

Matthew Rozsa
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