They outlived empires, rewrote timelines, and calmly survived ice ages while our entire species is barely a blink in their lifespan. Around the planet, some organisms measure their lives not in years or even centuries, but in millennia and geological epochs. Scientists are still piecing together how these ancient survivors cheat death, repair damage, ...
Every time we think we’ve finally mapped the rules of nature, the planet throws us a curveball. A sky that glows in ghostly colors with no storm in sight, a stone that seems to turn light into darkness, a desert that sings when the wind is just right – these are not scenes from ...
In a world where humans argue over what is fixed and what can change, nature quietly shrugs and rewrites the rules. Scattered across coral reefs, rocky shores, forests, and even backyard ponds are animals that can literally switch from one sex to another, sometimes more than once in a lifetime. For decades, biologists treated ...
