Biology

Squirrels spread their fall bounty across several locations. But do they have a key to this treasure map?

From self-pollination to bogs, cranberries are a Thanksgiving classic with many fascinating botanical and genetic features

Trees can outsmart animals such as squirrels and birds by synchronizing their seed production

A newly approved CRISPR therapy could transform the treatment of sickle cell disease and beta-thalassemia—but the technology is expensive

Engineers and paleontologists teamed up to reconstruct an ancestor of starfish from the Paleozoic era and figure out how it moved

Researchers created a monkey that combines cells from two different individuals; a lab technique gave it a strange green glow

Surgeons transplanted part of a face and an entire eyeball into a man with severe electrical burns. He is not yet able to see out of the eye, but preliminary evidence suggests it may retain some function

Developmental biologist Alfonso Martinez Arias believes that the emergent properties of cells, rather than the “instructions” written by genes, are the key to understanding how bodies are built

Evolutionary biology offers warnings, and tips, for surviving the advent of artificial intelligence

Standard English names for North American birds will now focus on the animals rather than people

The goofy-looking elephantnose fish “sees” its environment in three dimensions by creating a weak electric field and doing a little shimmy