Experimental Musings

Training Norway rats to play basketball is pretty hard. But what might be more difficult is deciding what to name the seven new rat basketball trainees at the Museum!

One of the ingredients of humanity is bipedalism or the ability to walk upright on two appendages. For some time now, scientists have been exploring Africa looking for our most ancient ancestors to further the story of human evolution. However, a new discovery is questioning our slow bipedal evolution.

We already know that running has noticeable impacts on the cardio and muscular functions of our body, but what does running do?

Nearly 8 million people take flights every single day here on Earth. Can science help the billions of people worldwide that suffer from jet lag?

Scientists have been looking at our long-necked friends. Our understanding of these animals just became far more detailed.