News

  1. Animals

    Giant, deep-sea roly-polies steal a gene to endure starvation

    The enormous deep-sea cousins of your garden’s pill bugs can go five years without food. A gene they pilfered from bacteria may be part of the secret.

    By Jake Buehler
  2. Neuroscience

    Brains break and repair DNA to grow

    Newborn mice neurons can snap both DNA strands to migrate, then repair the breaks within a day. The process may be a normal part of brain development.

    By Michael Howerton
  3. Microbes

    New science on algae die-offs is too late for the Reflecting Pool

    Iron and hydrogen peroxide trigger cell death via ferroptosis, which cascades killer molecules through the population, causing mass die-offs of algae.