Jennifer Ouellette's posts

Textbook illustrations and museum dioramas could soon be even more accurate in their depiction of the rich colors…

Did Donald Trump happen to lose one of his signature hairpieces in the Amazonian wilds of Peru? Wildlife…

This week Elon Musk announced plans to plans to build a “self-sustaining city” on Mars. It’s a thrilling notion,…

The field of psychology is currently in the midst of a kind of civil war, with one side claiming a widespread…

Those used coffee grounds you dump into the trash every morning might just help remove lead and mercury from…

If you’ve ever been stung by a jellyfish while swimming in the ocean, you know firsthand the pain that a venomous…

The paradox of Schrödinger’s cat—in which a quantum cat is both alive and dead at the same time until we check to…

Rats in tiny trousers, pseudoscientific bullshit, the personalities of rocks, and Volkswagen’s, shall we say,…

Ötzi the Iceman, the world’s favorite prehistoric mummy, has been subjected to every scientific test imaginable,…

We’re all familiar with holograms, the projected 3D images created by manipulating light. But can you create a…

For over forty years, archaeologists have longed to peek inside a badly damaged ancient scroll found on the western…

Nearly one-third of drugs in development ultimately fail during clinical trials because the side effects are just…

Kinetic sand is a freaky-looking substance made of 98 percent sand and 2 percent silicone oil, so it sticks to…

England’s famed White Cliffs of Dover were formed almost 100 million years ago out of the crushed shells of tiny…

There’s something especially satisfying about a nice cold brew with a thick head of foam. But that foam also serves…

Scientists have been arguing over the authenticity of an ancient document called the Grolier Codex for 50 years. A ne…

Secretly gloating over the misfortunes of others (a.k.a. schadenfreude) might not be the most noble of human traits,…

Hordes of lionfish have been roaming the Atlantic for several decades now, and their voracious appetite—and lack of…

The European Space Agency lost contact with its Rosetta mission’s plucky little lander, Philae, in May 2015. Now the…

Lasers are behind so much of our cutting-edge technology. Now scientists at the University of Michigan have successfu…