Articles by Jessica Leigh Hester

Shifts in age and environment can alter toxins.

Introducing Mundane Madness, a bracket challenge to anoint the world's most quietly amazing gadgets, implements, and tools.

After they found prehistoric fossils in the Canadian Rockies, researchers pulverized them to make 3D reconstructions.

These tiny, prehistoric bones tell a story about flight.

Jeremy Bentham died 186 years ago. Now conservators are transporting his "auto-icon" from London to New York for the first time.

It's surprisingly hard to tell.

They start out babbling, and get a lot more eloquent. Sound familiar?

The capital of Alberta leans way in to its frigid winters.

Traces of prehistoric life are everywhere.

How did these statuesque birds get to the peninsula, and where did they go?

To test the gadget's data skills, researchers speckled a beach with fake fowl.

A conservator shares the nitty-gritty details about taking a fatberg from the sewer to an exhibition.

How do you make a city more hedgehog-friendly? Step 1: Drill some holes.

A ceramicist is offering people who lost their homes a way to remember—and look to the future.

It is suspended in the skinny gulf between two electrodes.

They eventually die, but their cells stay forever young.

They're not a homogenous crowd.

Using needles and yarn, a medical student is working his way through the human body.

The wildly social rodents will work for snacks.

Researchers pried open the skulls of birds in museum collections to take a closer look.

"Snake!"

An unlikely international incident surrounding a wayward brining shed.

If you're going to practice writing cuneiform, why not do it on a cookie?

Researchers enlisted microbes to create a model for a self-sustaining food web. But the finished meal looks like goo.