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It’s the Civil War and you’re in the medical tent. In the darkness the man next to you has wounds glowing an eerie blue. Turns out, the men who had the glow were more likely to survive. The curious reason for Angel’s Glow won two high school students an international science award in 2001. It’s so gross. Your inner twelve-year-old will love it.
The Battle of Shiloh 1862 & nematodes with bioluminescent bacteria inside. image: from All That’s Interesting
There might be longer names, but Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff Sr. probably comes the closest. Amy reads it all. Because there's more. SO MUCH MORE...
We always hear about research “wins”. Rarely do we discuss “failures”–and we should. Today we dive into a few examples of how not getting...
Dug out of the Siberian permafrost completely by chance, two female round worms appear to revive after 41,000 years. Episode Transcript: Welcome to Brain...