In 1921, Otto Loewi woke from a dream with the idea for an experiment that proved nerves communicate using chemicals, not just electricity. By showing that stimulating one frog’s heart released a ...

Certain species of wasps and frogs share a pain and inflammation peptide similar to one found in vertebrates to help defend against predators—a discovery that contributes to a shifting view of how ...

A quiet Tamil film about guilt, love and the butterfly effect. Oh Butterfly follows a woman living with OCD as small choices ...

Madeleine Finlay sits down with science editor Ian Sample and science correspondent Nicola Davis to discuss three eye-catching stories, including the impact of a powerful psychedelic on depression, ...

The Russian state has long been accused of using exotic poisons to murder its opponents - whether the nerve agent Novichok or radioactive plutonium isotopes. Could Alexei Navalny have been killed by ...

He sold frogs, started fires, began high school late, and dreamed big. How Worcester rocket maker Robert Goddard and his wife ...

What may sound like a spa day for frogs is all part of a global effort to fight the chytrid fungus — the deadly pathogen responsible for what scientists have called the largest disease-driven loss of ...

Forget “ eye of newt and toe of frog/wool of bat and tongue of dog.” People in the 16th century were more akin to DIY ...

At a park near Canberra, Australia, a series of small white pyramid-shaped boxes are part of a new experiment: Can “frog ...

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For centuries, communities across Russia, Finland, and parts of Eastern Europe dropped small live frogs into fresh milk to stop it from spoiling. It sounds bizarre, almost like a superstition passed ...