Science

A passionate expert on fungi has spent a decade trying to discover the identity behind a preserved and mislabeled specimen in an Australian collection—all for the sake of science. Despite being one of the 5 kingdoms of life along with animals, plants, and two kinds of microorganisms, mycology, or the study…

Across different cultures and countries, people perceive the wisest members of society to be logical and reflective as well as able to consider other people’s feelings and perceptions. This was found in a new study that examined people’s conceptions of wisdom as a characteristic in 16 radically different world cultures, from…

Deadly poison from cone snails could be a newfound key to making better drugs to treat diabetes, according to a new study. The toxin, from one of the most venomous creatures on the planet, may also lead to new medicines for additional conditions caused by hormone disorders, said the researchers. They…

A recent reinterpretation of the oldest extant Viking legal text in Scandinavia has shed light on the surprising societal sophistication of these raiders and traders. The text is from an iron ring found in Sweden dating to the 9th century, called the Varsa Ring Though an undoubtedly strange place to post…

Honey has all manner of often-hidden medicine-like qualities, but more eyes will certainly be falling on Manuka honey after it was recently shown to reduce the proliferation of breast cancer cells. It did so in a sophisticated manner that even resulted in the occasional triggering of natural cell death, or apoptosis,…

If you want to get excited about scientific advancements from space, you have to accept sometimes that often the most exciting things are the most unactionable. Take for example a study just released from the University of California—that scientists may have finally found all that water that disappeared off the surface…