Biology

Stories filed under Biology in the Weird Science History archive — 19 stories from the strange edge of science.

• The Myth That You Only Use 10% of Your Brain
• The Toad Australia Released to Fight a Pest — and Turned Into a Bigger One
• The Water Bears That Survived Naked in Open Space
• The Naked Mole-Rat: The Cold-Blooded Mammal That Lives Like an Ant and Won't Age on Schedule
• The Parrot That Asked What Color Am I
• The Seesaw That Was Built to Raise the Dead
• The Slice of Cork That Named the Cell
• The Jellyfish That Can Reverse Its Own Aging
• The Lemmings That Never Jumped Off the Cliff
• The Mouse Utopia With Endless Food That Went Extinct Anyway
• The Blind Bats That Flew Perfectly in the Dark
• The Baby-Blue Blood of the Horseshoe Crab That Keeps Every Vaccine Safe
• Acoustic Kitty: The CIA Wired a Live Cat for Sound to Spy on the Soviets
• The Corn Geneticist Who Saw Genes Jump — And Waited 32 Years to Be Believed
• The Geologist Who Tried to Eat His Way Through the Entire Animal Kingdom
• Biosphere 2: The Sealed World Where the Oxygen Mysteriously Vanished
• Clever Hans: The Horse That Could 'Do Math'
• From Mendel's Peas to CRISPR: A Short History of Genetics
• The 100-Hour X-Ray Photograph That Revealed the Shape of DNA

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