Tiny Matters

[BONUS] Biodegradable super glue and a severe greenhouse gas that lowers your voice: Tiny Show and Tell Us #30

Babies and how they change our brains forever: We had questions, so we asked experts

[BONUS] Birds breathing with their butts and reducing food waste to combat climate change: Tiny Show and Tell Us #29

How domesticated is a domestic cat? From the wild to ancient Egyptian tombs to now

[BONUS] Diamond rain on Saturn (maybe) and UV rays breaking down harmful dyes: Tiny Show and Tell Us #28

The strange science and history of quantum computing and how it could transform chemistry

[BONUS] Squirrel pox and did tin buttons cause the downfall of Napoleon's army?: Tiny Show and Tell Us #27

Making labs safer: A heavy metal poisoning, a deadly protein exposure, and their aftermath

[BONUS] Fetuses ‘listening’ to different languages and climate change affecting psychiatric meds: Tiny Show and Tell Us #26

How NASA scientists are monitoring and predicting wildfires from space

[BONUS] The FDA’s ban of Red Dye No. 3 and the surprising science of winter roads: Tiny Show and Tell Us #25

How a Mars mission from the 1970s shaped the search for extraterrestrial life today

[BONUS] Babies leaving cells behind in mom and rethinking the Big Bang: Tiny Show and Tell Us #24

Ozempic: The science behind this blockbuster drug and its untapped potential

[BONUS] Marfan syndrome and plant pathogens eating DNA: Tiny Show and Tell Us #23

How a little-known vaccine project and decades of HIV research made "Operation Warp Speed" possible

[BONUS] Time limits for anesthesia and stunning bioluminescence: Tiny Show and Tell Us #22

The placenta: A disposable organ we can’t live without

[BONUS] An inspiring pharmacist grandma and orcas wearing dead salmon hats: Tiny Show and Tell Us #21

How glaciers safeguard Earth’s future and hold clues to our ancient past

[BONUS] Evolutionary adaptations to high altitudes and e-cigs vs. dry herb vaporizers: Tiny Show and Tell Us #20

How 18th and 19th century 'race science' still has deadly medical consequences today

[BONUS] Crocheted wasp nests and sewage in reefs: Tiny Show and Tell Us #19

The rape kit: From controversial 1970s invention to ending the backlog today

[BONUS] Double rainbows and mysterious chromosomes: Tiny Show and Tell Us #18

Not just a ‘royal disease’: Hemophilia’s devastating past to recent advances

[BONUS] Fungus farming ants and disappointing orange juice: Tiny Show and Tell Us #17

How plants shaped our world: Rising oxygen, blocky bones, and other pivotal moments in evolution

[BONUS] 'Night soil' recycling and could viruses be the new antibiotics?: Tiny Show and Tell Us #16

Can evolution go backwards?

[BONUS] Four armadillos in a trench coat and does pregnancy boost your sense of smell?: Tiny Show and Tell Us #15

'A cage of ovulating females': The development and testing of the oral birth control pill

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[BONUS] A hedgehog doppelgänger and STEVE lighting up the sky: Tiny Show and Tell Us #14

Nearly 40 years after the Chornobyl nuclear disaster, wildlife is thriving

Happy New Year! Bring on 2025

[BONUS] Pollen-food allergy syndrome and stepping on 116 snakes: Tiny Show and Tell Us #13

Frostbite: From Napoleonic era treatments to the first FDA approved frostbite drug

[BONUS] Xenobots and rethinking 'junk DNA': Tiny Show and Tell Us #12

In defense of plants: Pitfall traps, rancid aromas, and other wild pollination strategies with Matt Candeias

[BONUS] Why we experience altitude sickness and a chirality mystery: Tiny Show and Tell Us #11

Stories trapped in ancient teeth: Reconstructing megalodon’s diet and retracing the steps of woolly mammoths

[BONUS] Mice aging in reverse and using origami to understand how a tiny organism captures prey: Tiny Show and Tell Us #10

Ghosts and cyborgs: A specter skeptic and the promise (and perils) of biohybrid robots

[BONUS] Algae in the clouds and colossal galaxy walls: Tiny Show and Tell Us #9

Pesticides across history and learning from millions of years of plant-insect warfare

[BONUS] A shark’s ‘jelly-filled canals’ and deadly cyanide in clovers: Tiny Show and Tell Us #8

Vaping vs. smoking: What does decades of research tell us?

[BONUS] How the moon causes tides and ancient viruses lurking in your DNA: Tiny Show and Tell Us #7

Extinction: Rethinking the dodo's demise, and could a supervolcano threaten humanity's future?