WEIRD NATURE
A satellite image shows a powerful atmospheric river hitting the U.S. West Coast on 2024 Jan 31. NOAA GOES – By Qian Cao, Hydrologist, Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes, University of California, San Diego Published: 2024 Jan 30 – Updated: 2024 …
Using a new kind of microscopy process researchers have watched a flu virus break into a human cell in real time. Emma Hyde / ETH Zurich – By Pranjal Malewar 2025 Dec 12 – Every winter, as the air sharpens and scarves return to …
The Japanese tree frog (Hyla japonica) hosts a bacterium that kills tumors from the inside out. Norio Nomura/iNaturalist/(CC By-SA 4.0) – By Bronwyn Thompson 2025 Dec 16 – A bacterium from the intestines of Japanese tree frogs has “exhibited remarkably potent” tumor-killing abilities when …
A massive volcanic event – or a series of them – may have set the pandemic wheels in motion, years before it arrived in Europe. Depositphotos View 5 Images – By Bronwyn Thompson 2025 Dec 11 – Hidden inside the narrow growth rings of Pyrenees …
The ‘feeling’ was spread not by sound or scent but by visual interaction. Depositphotos – By Chelsea Haney 2025 Dec 07 – Bumblebees have a way of looking both adorable and slightly overserved, wobbling from flower to flower like fuzzy little potatoes. They seem …
One of the thousands of Drosera silvicola discovered at Paruna Wildlife Sanctuary in Western Australia. Thilo Alexander Krueger/Australian Wildlife Conservancy. View 4 Images – By Bronwyn Thompson 2025 Dec 05 – There’s an old saying that everything in Australia wants to eat you – …
A rendering of a bacteriophage – a virus that preys on bacteria. Depositphotos – By Malcolm Azania 2025 Dec 01 – They’re gorgeous, dazzling, passionately pursued, and worth billions. No, not Hollywood starlets and hunks and the stars of K-Pop. Well, OK, yes – they …
You could be flushing away your chance to advance medical science. Depositphotos – By Bronwyn Thompson 2025 Nov 28 – You may be sitting on – so to speak – a very valuable asset that scientists would love to get their hands on: your …
Scientists used drones to produce this 3D model of Rano Raraku, the volcanic crater where 95% of Rapa Nui’s giant statues were carved. Lipo et al., 2025, PLOS One, CC BY – By Carl Lipo, Professor of Anthropology and Associate Dean for Research, …
Modern wolves and dogs both descend from an ancient wolf population that lived alongside woolly mammoths and cave bears. Iza Lyson/500px Prime via Getty Images – By Audrey T. Lin, Research Associate in Anthropology, Smithsonian Institution And by Logan Kistler, Curator of Archaeobotany and Archaeogenomics, …
