Taking in seawater while filtering out dense salts lets unicellular phytoplankton migrate tens of meters vertically toward sunnier seas.
The annual Small World photomicrography competition, now in its 50th year, puts life’s smallest details under the microscope.
Insects stuck in sundew plants’ sticky secretions suffocate and die before being subjected to a medley of digestive enzymes.
Cats can flow like liquids through tall crevices, but they solidify a bit as they approach short crannies, new research shows.
The speed at which our brain can tell smells apart is on par with color perception, a new sniff device shows.
Genetic analysis of cavity crud from two famed man-eating lions suggests the method could re-create diets of predators that lived thousands of years ago.
The ouch of hair pulling is transmitted with the help of a protein used to sense light touches. These details could lead to new treatments.
A new gene drive can copy and paste itself into the genomes of herpes simplex viruses in mice. The end goal is a version that disables the virus in humans.
Fossils of an extinct giant millipede reveal new details about the arthropod’s anatomy.
