Several new articles explore the biology of fun (and the fun of biology). Scientists present what we know about playfulness in dogs, dolphins, frogs, and octopuses. They also provide insights on ...
The other day, you were outside playing and you hit your head. Ouch! It hurt so much that you started to cry, both eyes watering. Your ears rang and you cried so hard, you started to hiccup. But you ...
A new study shows that Madagascar’s “nose chameleons,” once confused as one species, are actually three distinct and rapidly ...
A student at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, he and some of his classmates were competing in the world’s premier undergraduate competition in synthetic biology. They came up with a clever, if ...
In the future, we may be able to grow cheap-enough meat in factories rather than slaughter animals, and or edit genes so there’s no HIV or cancer, but it’s dangerous to get ahead of ourselves. You ...
When James Morris started teaching biology at Harvard in 2000, he was dismayed by the textbooks that were available. Though there were exceptions, they tended to be dull, full of facts students were ...
A new strain of red-eyed mutant wasps has been brought into the world by a team of scientists. The wasps were created to prove that CRISPR gene-slicing technology can be used successfully on the tiny ...