This podcast originally aired on August 17, 2021. Karen Hopkin: This is Scientific American's Science, Quickly. I'm Karen Hopkin. What has one head, one foot and one heck of an origin story? No, it’s ...

Bdelloid rotifers are multicellular animals so small you need a microscope to see them. Despite their size, they're known for being tough, capable of surviving through drying, freezing, starvation, ...

Tiny aquatic animal can also withstand desiccation, radiation and extreme heat, and reproduces asexually An animal that has thrived without males for millions of years will be a source of inspiration ...

How a group of animals can abandon sex, yet produce more than 460 species over evolutionary time, became a little less mysterious this week with the publication of the complete genome of a bdelloid ...

Imagine a world where life pauses for tens of thousands of years, only to resume as if no time had passed - much like Captain America waking up after 72 years. Scientists in Siberia have done just ...

DNA carries the blueprint for building bodies, but it’s a living document: Adjustments to the design can be made by epigenetic marks. In humans and other eukaryotes, two principal epigenetic marks are ...