Jake Currie

A top-secret 1960s project tasked physics postdocs with building The Bomb

This polyextremophile bacterium could survive an interplanetary trip

The Tanyka was a little like a platypus

Yellowstone National Park is home to the world’s most impressive geysers

There’s a way for the tiny resilient creatures to thrive even on the red planet

“It’s a recipe for overeating”

“People often overestimate how harshly others judge their minor social mistakes”

The newly described species went mislabeled for years

“It’s a place of extremes, invisible to our eyes, but now revealed in extraordinary detail”

That first hit of burger and fries can leave quite the impression

The insects undergo a Jekyll-and-Hyde transformation

It’s all about the ridges