biology

Cicadas: The dormant army beneath your feet

The Arctic vs. the Antarctic

The terrors of sleep paralysis

Can the damaged brain repair itself?

A new way to grow bone

Body parts on a chip

How big is the ocean?

Demo: A needle-free vaccine patch that's safer and way cheaper

Why do we sleep?

Leather and meat without killing animals

The paralyzed rat that walked

The birds and the bees are just the beginning

The brilliance of bioluminescence

Our shared condition -- consciousness

What cameras see that our eyes don't

Why do we see illusions?

How we'll resurrect the gastric brooding frog, the Tasmanian tiger

How a dead duck changed my life

A promising test for pancreatic cancer ... from a teenager

Could we speak the language of dolphins?

The dawn of de-extinction. Are you ready?

We're covered in germs. Let's design for that.

How a fly flies

How do cancer cells behave differently from healthy ones?

Hey science teachers -- make it fun

The secret of the bat genome

The dance of the dung beetle

The survival of the sea turtle

Experiments that point to a new understanding of cancer

The promise of research with stem cells

What we're learning from 5,000 brains

Energy from floating algae pods

Could tissue engineering mean personalized medicine?

Print your own medicine

Science is for everyone, kids included

The mysterious workings of the adolescent brain