Why do men have beards and women do not? Deep in the brain, the hypothalamus produces surges of gonadotropin-releasing hormone, a small chemical that acts...

Here's an easy recipe: take food, metabolically convert it into sticky glue. Then, allow air to contact it while rapidly stretching it into an impossibly...

It was a miracle of rare device, A sunny pleasure dome with caves of ice! (Samuel Taylor Coleridge on the Pleasure Palace of Kubla Khan) From the evolutionary...

History was my favorite subject as a young kid. But it always puzzled me when my teachers said, “We study history so that we don’t repeat...

They had told us a particular supernova exploded 10,000 years ago. How then, did the Chinese see it in AD 185? The answer is a case study in scientific...

Using freeze-fracturing and an electron microscope, researchers can indirectly view the plasma membrane of a human cell. What is revealed are large,...

A new study published in Nature Communications claims to have figured out how the tectonic plates may have originated.¹ It’s been over...

If you were standing in a field of tomatoes, you might be surprised to know that the soil underneath your feet is teeming with electrical signals being...

Recently, the southeastern United States was hit by a huge cloud of dust from the Sahara desert that drifted across the Atlantic Ocean. A second such cloud...

Tim Clarey, Ph.D., and Jake Hebert, Ph.D. Secular scientists continue to struggle to explain the origin of Earth’s water. And a new study...

Evolutionary scientists are still trying to explain the origin of Earth’s continents. Some have even called this mystery the “holy grail”...

One lone elm tree survived a deadly “elm disease.” Nicknamed “Ent Tree” (alluding to arboreal heroes in J. R. R. Tolkien’s...

Wisdom teeth crowd most mouths. We no longer use these teeth, so why do they take up space in the backs of our jaws? Back in 2008, the Wall Street Journal...

Scientists recently reported the discovery of a new human-like species called Homo naledi. Why is this important to Christians? Dr. Clarey clears...

Days ago, a fishing boat near the Shetland Islands needed emergency help, and received it in a timely manner. So, a fearful predicament had a happy ending.¹ In...

Some good news in potential treatment options for COVID-19 was reported in the American journal Science.¹ Four new treatment options were being...

With everyone stuck at home, it might be beneficial to know that stepping outside for even 15 minutes a day may help alleviate some of the COVID-19 symptoms—if...

New York City has become one of the largest epicenters of confirmed cases in the United States for coronavirus infections. Now, a new research study recently...

A new study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution has claimed that flowering plants, the most common type of plant on Earth, first appeared in small...

The latter days of July are very busy for many pollinators.¹ These include birds, bees, butterflies, moths, beetles, flies, bats, and more.^1-3 Pollination...

Estonia’s peaceful outbreak from the former Soviet Union is famously known as the “Singing Revolution”¹—but its Green...

The life of a Maine lobster is mostly a matter of crawling around on muddy continental shelf seafloors, not far from a coastline. Benthic scavenging is...

How can learning about turtles and doing some birdwatching be useful during this time? Local disasters are declared, and ordinary life activities are restricted,...

When in houses humans stay, wild critters come out to play! It seems that coronavirus has beckoned wild critters to come boldly into human habitations...

James J. S. Johnson, J.D., Th.D., and Tim Clarey, Ph.D. A recent study published in the journal Frontiers in Earth Science indicates that North...

A recent study, published in Frontiers in Marine Science, reports on the recurring problem of humpback whales colliding with large estuary-trafficking...

A recent study, from the University of Exeter in England, provides insight into how and why European pine martens need each other—but also like to...

The Ediacara biota is a sporadic faunal (animal) stage containing unique soft-bodied fossil creatures in sandstone from the Ediacaran System dating...

Entomologists, biologists who study insects, continue to uncover amazing discoveries regarding the intellect of bees^1,2 Now, biologists...

Metabolism is the totality of chemical reactions that manage all of the molecular, material, and energy resources within an organism. Part of a creature’s...