This Cockatoo Thinks He Can Dance
Watching Snowball the cockatoo dance to Queen’s “Another One Bites the Dust” has long been one of the joys of the internet. The...
An Emperor Penguin Colony in Antarctica Vanishes
The Antarctic’s second-largest colony of emperor penguins collapsed in 2016, with more than 10,000 chicks lost, and the population has...
Split-Sex Animals Are Unusual, Yes, but Not as Rare as You’d Think
All serious butterfly collectors remember their first gynandromorph: a butterfly with a color and pattern that are distinctly male on one...
The Death Predictor: A Helpful New Tool or an Ethical Morass?
Whenever Eric Karl Oermann has to tell a patient about a terrible prognosis, their first question is always: “how long do I have?”...
A Rare Bird Indeed: A Cardinal That’s Half Male, Half Female
A bird hopping outside the window lately is the strangest that Shirley and Jeffrey Caldwell have ever seen. Its left side is the taupe...
Want to know when you’re going to die? Your life span is written in your DNA, and we’re learning to
It's the ultimate unanswerable question we all face: When will I die? If we knew, would we live differently? So far, science has been no...
Doctor, Your Patient Is Waiting. It’s a Red Panda.
BOSTON — Hoppy, a young red panda, was the first patient of the day, carried — and anesthetized — into the exam room so he could get a...
An anti-aging researcher faces the loss of his inspiration: his 96-year-old father
Leonid Peshkin calmly strokes his father’s thin, white hair. He gently exercises the old man’s arms to acivate his muscles and get the...
Blood test might help predict both preterm and healthy delivery dates
For most women, one of the most stressful parts of giving birth is not knowing when it’s going to happen. Roughly 15 million pregnant...
Biotech Startups: Dreams, Risk, Failure And — Sometimes — Success
Click here to listen to the piece on WBUR. Patsy Freeland went to work for a health care startup soon after graduating from college,...
