Hot springs, colourful microbes: surviving in a world that’s unique, beautiful, and hostile

From Greek mythology to Turritopsis jellyfish: an investigation into immortality.

How would dragons avoid burning themselves and their habitats?

One special type of bacteria could be the key to dragonfire.

Could dragons do what no known organism has done before?

Large animals have trouble flying. How would a dragon pull it off?

Are dragons feasible? Let’s rewind evolution to find out.

It took thirteen years to first sequence our DNA. Thanks to bioinformatics, we can now do it in a week.

Plants spend all day in the sun without sunscreen. Some trees live for thousands of years. Why don’t they die from cancer?

How to make a dragon in just a few (hundred million) short years

White spots are good: are you throwing away a perfectly good cheese? The  funny thing about being a food scientist, is that before meeting me,  most people have never even heard of my field....

Are we basically two people at once? We like to think that each one of us is only one kind of person, a whole comprised of various facets and feelings. And as an extension of that, we like t...

Nobody’s found signs of alien life yet. So why do they keep on looking? Extra-terrestrial life. What images just popped into your mind? Little green men? ET, the gnarly but ultimately friend...

They talk about Life on other planets, but have we even seen the limits of life here on Earth? Planet Mars is ice cold and desert dry. Except in the frozen ice-caps, there’s not a drop of wa...

Will the leguminous Prince find her? And what root will he take? This story can also be read on Medium [https://medium.com/snipette/sleeping-beauty-underground-d87ba46df792?source=friends_li...

Some organisms never quite worked out how to live with it. This is the story of where they went. Off the coast of Japan, for four months a year, the deep blue sea is transformed into a stunn...

The little creatures that rule the world Drifting through the warm ocean waters, the Portuguese Man-o’-War is no ordinary jellyfish. It is not a jellyfish at all. In fact, it may not even be...

When you lose focus, what do your eyes focus on? Sometimes,  our thoughts drift during conversations, or we mentally ‘switch-off’  during a particularly boring lecture. I’ve especially notic...

Carbon is not alive. But without carbon, there would be no life at all. This story can also be read on Medium [https://medium.com/snipette/the-story-of-my-carbon-9c8f6c2ca336?source=friends_...