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Watch Cells Move Within Living Animals in This Breathtaking Footage
The new microscope technique incorporates cutting-edge technology to capture spectacular imagery of cellular activity
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Colony of Beautiful, Doomed Purple Octopuses Found Off Costa Rica
Hundreds of unidentified cephalopods were found nursing their eggs near a deep-sea vent
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Human Cell Atlas Releases First Major Data Set
The information includes data from over half a million immune cells from human cord blood and bone marrow
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How to Talk With Evangelicals About Evolution
For two years, researchers from the Smithsonian traveled the country explaining the science of our shared origins
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Why Are We Always Searching For “A Quiet Place?”
Perhaps the real monster is not noise, but instead our own intolerance of unwanted sounds
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What the Large Penises of Tiny Crustaceans Tell Us About Evolution
Massive male sex organs have their perks, but in the long run, a little modesty pays
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Bad News, Night Owls: You Might Have a Higher Risk of Dying Early
Researchers found a 10 percent higher risk of early death in late night sleepers, but aren’t sure why
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Herpes Is Kind of Beautiful, On the Molecular Level
This detailed visualization of the herpes virus is a step toward finding new treatments
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How Do Tiny Chicks Crack Out of Their Eggs?
The secret is in the egg shells’ nanostructure
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Can Biomusic Offer Kids With Autism a New Way to Communicate?
Biomedical engineers are using the sound of biological rhythms to describe emotional states
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These Underwater Robots Offer a New Way to Sample Microbes From the Ocean
The health of forests of underwater plankton have a big impact on the environment, and oceanographers are just starting to understand it
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How Children’s Books Reveal Our Evolving Relationship With Whales
Storybooks feature a fair amount of factual errors—and those errors can be revealing
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Your Low-Calorie Sweetener Could Be Making You Fat
There are several ways that consuming artificial sweeteners might contribute to obesity
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A Honey Badger Cracks Open a Thick Ostrich Egg
Ostrich eggs can weigh up to three pounds and have some of the hardest shells around. This honey badger, however, isn’t about to let any of that get in the
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The Super-cute Eastern Quoll Returns to Mainland Australia
Wiped out by a mystery disease and non-native foxes, the spotted, cat-sized predator is being reintroduced in Booderee National Park
A Honey Badger and Mole Snake Fight to the Death
A hungry honey badger and a fearless mole snake are locked in a deadly battle, with survival at stake
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Study Reveals Pythons Take Care of Their Offspring, For a Little While
The southern African python wraps around its eggs to keep them warm and does the same for its snakelets during the first weeks of life
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After 150 Years, This Bizarre Plant Was Rediscovered in Malaysia
Thismia neptunis spends most of its life underground, only making a rare appearance to bloom
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Manta Rays Use Tiny Fish to Help Them Stay Clean
Wrasse perform a vital cleaning function for other fish, by ridding their bodies of dead cells and parasites
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Termites Are Moving in With Cockroaches, Taxonomically
The wood-munching critters are technically just social roaches
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