Life

  1. Fossils

    Dangerous dinos in the dark

    Eye fossils reveal predatory dinosaurs’ preference for hunting at night.

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  2. Animals

    Secrets of the world’s extreme divers

    For emperor penguins and other animals, being able to hold their breath the longest could be in the blood

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  3. Animals

    Big fish in troubled waters

    Overfishing cuts number of large predator fish in the ocean.

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  4. Oceans

    Sea changes

    Carbon dioxide is making the oceans more acidic.

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  5. Animals

    Eating can be skin deep

    In the laboratory, bottom-dwelling hagfish absorb nutrients through the skin.

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  6. Life

    Full-body taste

    Turns out that the tongue isn’t the only place where the body can taste what you ate.

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  7. Animals

    There’s no ‘i’ in elephant

    These clever mammals may know when two trunks are better than one.

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  8. Plants

    Carnivorous plants say ‘cheese’

    It took high-speed cameras to reveal how the bladderwort gets lunch.

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  9. Microbes

    Life in the bacterial underground

    Tiny life forms in rock may coax minerals to release hydrogen for food.

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  10. Chemistry

    Like poison for phosphorus

    Scientists report finding bacterium that can live off arsenic.

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  11. Brain

    Jet lag slows hamster brains

    Study suggests chronic jet lag could affect human brains too.

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  12. Animals

    What the cat’s tongue catches

    New study shows how cats use physics to drink.

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