BiologyAugust 12, 2016
An Olympic Showdown: Human versus Bat
Could the tiny vampire bat give Olympic sprinters in Rio a run for their money?
Stories by Lydia Chain
Lydia Chain is a freelance science journalist, podcaster, and videographer. She hosts Undark's podcast, and also writes about nature, the environment, and evolution, especially when it involves the intersection of humans and wild spaces or animals behaving strangely.
BiologyAugust 11, 2016
An Olympic Showdown: Human versus Dolphin
Can a hot pink dolphin outswim an Olympic champion?
BiologyJuly 1, 2016
Every Skin Cell of This Fish Glows a Different Color
The newly engineered zebra fish could help scientists better understand how skin cells react to injury
The SciencesFebruary 11, 2016
Gravitational Waves Are the Ringing of Spacetime
The universe is a noisy place, but we didn’t always have the right ears to hear the sounds—until now.
HealthDecember 5, 2014
Vast Majority of Life-Saving Cord Blood Sits Unused
High costs keep patients from using stem cells harvested from umbilical cords