Animals
Tiny Spider Fells Prey Many Times Its Size
A spider that caught and devoured a much larger shrew for its meal adds to evidence that more spiders aren’t strangers to dining on vertebrates
Latest Biology Stories
Reproduction
Mice with Two Fathers? Researchers Develop Egg Cells from Male Mice
The research offers a tantalizing glimpse at a future in which two men can have biological children together, but any human applications remain in the distant future
Evolution
Inside the Scientific Quest to Save (Most) of the World's Parasites
Scientists are on a mission to save parasites—not to kill them. Climate change is already doing an increasingly good job at the latter, and that could be a big problem for the world...
Animals
Scientists Have ID’d the Worm in Your Mescal
A team of moth and butterfly scientists decided to go from a restaurant bar to the lab bench to understand mescal’s iconic “worm”
Animals
All of Humanity Weighs Six Times as Much as All Wild Mammals
A glaring disparity exists between the biomass of humans and that of both terrestrial and aquatic mammals
Animals
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
Animals
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
Animals
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.
Epidemiology
Vaccine Makers Are Preparing for Bird Flu
Although most experts say bird flu is not an immediate threat to humans, efforts are underway to produce vaccines for H5N1 or another potential pandemic virus
Plants
The Science of Spring’s Green Show
Spring’s burst of brightness comes before chloroplasts grow and mature
