Russell Mclendon

Close-up of bubbles from the Champagne hydrothermal vent site at Eifuku, a submarine volcano. (U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)

Tardigrades stand apart from much of the animal kingdom due to their extreme durability, which famously helps the tiny creatures survive being boiled, frozen, irradiated, and fired from a gun, among other indignities.

The colored streaks show mitochondrial networks within fat cells. (UC San Diego Health Sciences)

(Emma Lumley/Getty Images) All that glitters is not gold. Actual glitter, for instance, can be a surprisingly harmful environmental pollutant, as a new study demonstrates.

Getting into 'the zone' when being creative can be tricky, even if you've been there before.

'Forever chemicals' are increasingly 'everywhere chemicals,'too.

(Viktor Gladkov/Canva Pro) Venting when angry seems sensible. Conventional wisdom suggests expressing anger can help us quell it, like releasing steam from a pressure cooker.

Birds are famous for communicating vocally, but many have other options, too.

While details are understandably slim today, life on Earth is thought to have arisen about 4 billion years ago from a fateful blend of organic compounds popularly known as primordial soup.

Flame retardants apparently save lives, but in addition to foiling potential fires, many of these chemicals also may be slowly sickening the people they were meant to protect.