Life Sciences and Biomedicine Archives

Disco Clam, Colorful Mystery

By Neha Jain (@lifesciexplore) Dazzling bright-red tentacles first lured Lindsey Dougherty to the study of disco clams, which are found…

In Japan after a nuclear radiation disaster Book Review: Radiation Brain Moms and Citizen Scientists: The Gender Politics of Food…

By Mackenzie Myers What if, instead of ancient treasure and tombs, Indiana Jones researched ancient pollen and soil? Beyond just…

By Jacqueline Mattos Plants are ancestral organisms that have evolved over millions of years, leading to the broad diversity we…

From big to small, we all count. Even caterpillars. Caterpillars are important Caterpillars are familiar to us. When a butterfly…

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Environment

By Jacqueline Mattos In the last few decades, scientific observations have highlighted that we are now facing a mass extinction,…

By Helen Cheng (@ms_helenc / @thebiotaproject) For those who live along the United States East Coast, October is the height…

Marine mammals such as dolphins, porpoises, and whales are often injured or killed by commercial fishing. New policies are needed…