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These insects can sense higher pitches than any other known species
The engineered organs were capable of producing one third as much urine as normal kidneys. The achievement suggests the potential for replacement kidneys grown on demand with no donor shortage or immune problems
Microbes have been found living deep inside crust at the bottom of the sea. The crust is several kilometers thick and covers 60 percent of the planet's surface, making it the largest habitat on Earth
Bob Paine showed that keystone species can radically reshape their ecosystems, and he fathered an academic family that had done the same for ecology
New genetic findings upend assumptions about Australia's isolation
DNA in insects' guts reveals inventory of rare mammals
Two studies refute an enzyme’s essential role in remembering and forgetting
Like whales, this Antarctic predator can strain small prey from the water with sievelike teeth
Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman wants psychologists who study social priming to restore credibility with open data and by having multiple labs repeat experiments to make sure that results are robust
A triple reassortment strain of an H1N2 virus, with genes from avian, swine and human flu, has been shown to jump easily via air to mammals
Three shark species once found in the central Pacific Ocean are now missing, a study of swords, tridents and other weapons reveals
The reverse-engineered life form could be used to test drugs
The findings help to explain why cancer is so difficult to study and treat
A new hypothesis holds that the natural selection produced the chimpanzee's nicer cousin in much the same way that humans bred dogs from wolves
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