Last week, Utah’s Division of Wildlife Resources released a video of the state’s first ever wildlife overpass. The project, which allows animals to move across a landscape increasingly covered in ...

The newly identified psychrotolerant yeast, Rhodotorula frigidialcoholis, was isolated from 150,000-year-old ice cemented permafrost in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica. The researchers found it ...

The idea of mixing brains with machines is nothing new. First proposed in the 1970s, brain-machine interfaces (BMIs) have already achieved a lot over the decades. Initial versions let people move ...

This story answered a lot of questions I had about what is natural and what is genetically modified, but one question that I am still curious about is the long-term genetic effects of consuming GMOs.

Ed: Welcome to Butt Month. Every Tuesday in September, Massive will publish an article on the evolution, science, and technology surrounding the butt. If it touches the butt, we'll be covering it. Why ...

Plastic decomposition is sped up by the flash Joule heating method Packaging from the grocery store, lint from our clothing, plastic shopping bags – plastics and microplastics are everywhere, and they ...

Determining the measure of a great scientist is a challenge. Is it an enormous contribution to science, noted by awards and distinctions? Publications in peer-reviewed journals or keynotes at ...

Astronauts go through intense stresses like microgravity, confinement, and space radiation during space travel. But the aftermath of space travel on astronauts’ health is not clear. Building on the ...

Bacteria survive and thrive even in the harshest environments. Scientists have characterized species thriving in Antarctica, and even in deep-sea oil wells. Now, a study published in PNAS in August ...

As a lover of plants, this was a great read. I think this article perfectly illustrates how scientific findings that came from very controlled laboratory environments don’t always apply to the real ...

This is a nice piece about some interesting implications of using VR in research. I like that you mentioned the limited sensory information available in VR environments. Besides the lack of sensory ...

In the desert near Las Vegas, Nevada, Bertha Parker completed her daily tasks of cooking, cleaning, and organizing the day’s finds from the Gypsum Cave excavation and stole away from her role as ...