Bob Grant
Check Out the Beak on This Baby Basking Shark
An intriguing image resurfaces from a decades-old paper
Evolution Is Written in Our Joints
Why do humans have such stupid knees, ankles, and backs?
Space Is Raining Junk, and It’s Getting Worse
With another hunk of space debris crashing down, the perils of a jampacked low-Earth orbit hit home
This Natural History Museum Heist Rivals the Louvre Robbery
A young music student lifted nearly 300 rare bird specimens from a British museum
Watch My Skeleton Dance for Science
Taking part in a study on low back pain led to some spooky shenanigans
Earth’s Largest Mirror Shattered by Science
The Bolivian salt flat long touted as a massive looking glass loses some of its shine
These Aren’t Your Pharoah’s Mummies
Other cultures across Asia were preserving their dead for millennia before the Egyptians
DNA’s Death Notice
See original manuscripts, letters, photos, and jokes from luminaries like Rosalind Franklin, Aaron Klug, and Linus Pauling
Does Musical Taste Narrow with Age?
What 450 million song plays tell us about how our listening habits evolve
Here’s Why Binge-Watching Is Good for You
Rabidly consuming TV shows, movies, or books could make us more imaginative and able to cope with stress