biology

Meet the tardigrade, the toughest animal on Earth

How vultures can help solve crimes

What happens during a heart attack?

How do animals experience pain?

Why are we so attached to our things?

Why do we kiss under mistletoe?

The neuroscience of imagination

Science didn't understand my kids' rare disease until I decided to study it

You smell with your body, not just your nose

New nanotech to detect cancer early

Why we collect things

How human noise affects ocean habitats

What we don't know about mother's milk

Why you should love gross science

A secret weapon against Zika and other mosquito-borne diseases

How do contraceptives work?

What a driverless world could look like

Do we really own our bodies?

To solve old problems, study new species

Why do we hiccup?

How early life experience is written into DNA

How trees talk to each other

How playing sports benefits your body... and your brain

What you need to know about CRISPR

What will humans look like in 100 years?

A new way to study the brain's invisible secrets

How the food you eat affects your brain

Do kids think of sperm donors as family?

Why do our bodies age?

How to build a business that lasts 100 years

Pollution-free lights, powered by microbes

How we're harnessing nature's hidden superpowers

The era of personal DNA testing is here

Why do cats act so weird?

What the sugar coating on your cells is trying to tell you

What would happen if you didn't drink water?