
Bumblebees Show Off Their Own Puzzle-Solving Culture
Like chimpanzees, bees can learn specific strategies for opening a puzzle box and accessing a reward inside by mimicking the behavior of their trained mates

Bumblebees Show Off Their Own Puzzle-Solving Culture
Like chimpanzees, bees can learn specific strategies for opening a puzzle box and accessing a reward inside by mimicking the behavior of their trained mates

What Chernobyl’s Stray Dogs Could Teach Us about Radiation
A multiyear project studying stray dogs around Chernobyl aims to uncover the health effects of chronic radiation exposure


How the Woolly Bear Caterpillar Turns into a Popsicle to Survive the Winter
Some caterpillars have evolved with antifreeze in their body cavity, allowing them to become cater-Popsicles to survive cold winters. But climate change could threaten that.

What Scientists Are Learning about Women’s Health from Other Female Animals
Evolved adaptations of female animals could help solve women’s health challenges

How Octopus Arms Bypass the Brain
A secret pattern links far-flung octopus limbs

To Fight Antimicrobial Resistance, Start with Farm Animals
Governments must regulate drug misuse in food animals that is contributing to antimicrobial resistance

Where Is a Large Predator Most Likely to Attack You?
A global survey of predator attacks on humans shows that South Asia is the world’s most dangerous spot

Sharpshooter Insects Use ‘Superpropulsion’ to Catapult Their Pee
Sharpshooter insects use a physics phenomenon called superpropulsion to efficiently fling away droplets of pee at extremely high speeds

Is the Alpha Wolf Idea a Myth?
The idea that wolf packs are led by a merciless dictator, or alpha wolf, comes from old studies of captive wolves. In the wild, wolf packs are simply families

Snakes Can Hear You Scream, New Research Reveals
Not only can snakes hear sounds traveling through the air, researchers find, but different species react differently to what they hear

Love and the Brain: The Animal Matchmaker and the Panda Romeo and Juliet
In fair zoo-ona, a pair of star-cross’d pandas take their life. And we learn about whether or not animals can fall in love.

Why Snakes Have Two Clitorises and Other Mysteries of Female Animal Genitalia
Science has long overlooked the clitoris, but the organ’s diversity in the animal kingdom reveals its importance