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New Patch Could Help Reduce Peanut Allergies
A new study shows that a transdermal patch delivering tiny doses of peanut protein could help allergy sufferers tolerate larger exposure to peanuts
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These Sea Creatures Have a Secret Superpower: Invisibility Cloaks
Scientists have found that some crustaceans have just the trick for hiding from predators
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Dragged-Out Drought May Make for Fainter Fall Foliage
Parched conditions in New England equal milder colors
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Prehistoric Kickboxing Killer Turkeys
Unlike Jurassic Park’s lizard-like creatures, real raptors had feathers and looked a lot more like their closest relatives — birds
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Portia spiders, known for their remarkable intelligence, have some of the most astonishing hunting skills in the arthropod community
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Scientists Hijacked Tobacco Plants to Make Malaria Drugs
A promising new advance could make the world’s best anti-malarial drug more widely available
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Madagascar’s Mangroves: The Ultimate Giving Trees
Locals already use the trees for food, fuel and building materials. Now they’re burning them to make lime clay
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Fur Real: Scientists Have Obsessed Over Cats for Centuries
Ten of the best feline-focused studies shed light on our relationship with these vampire-hunting, sexy-bodied killers
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How Bats Ping On the Wing—And Look Cute Doing It
Researchers reveal how bats turn echolocation signals into a 3-D image of moving prey
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Big Data Just Got Bigger as IBM’s Watson Meets the Encyclopedia of Life
An NSF grant marries one of the world’s largest online biological archives with IBM’s cognitive computing and Georgia Tech’s moduling and simulation
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Scientists Are Creating an Atlas of Human Cells
The Human Cell Atlas will boldly go where science, surprisingly, hasn’t gone before
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Feeding Silkworms Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene Makes Super-Tough Silk
A diet rich in graphene or carbon nanotubes causes the creatures to produce a fiber twice as strong as normal silk
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The fuzzy, buzzy creatures are capable of more than you might think
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The Strange Reappearance of the Once-Vanished Green Sea Turtle
It’s a conservation biology riddle wrapped in a mystery inside a hard shell
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Japanese Scientist Wins Nobel Prize for Discovering How Cells Cannibalize Worn Out Parts
Like stripping old engine parts away
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The Animals That Venom Can’t Touch
Meet the creatures who look into the face of venomous death and say: Not today
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This Music Was Composed by Climate Change
Dying forests make magnificently melancholy listening
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Stalking Down Answers: Why Are Some Redwoods White?
The mysterious pale trees many not just be odd genetic mutations, a new study finds
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In Defense of Studying City Rats
By placing a taboo on researching these “disease sponges,” we leave ourselves at their mercy
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Breeding a Better Chicken in the Name of Art (and Science)
For 20 years, Belgian artist Koen Vanmechelen has been selectively breeding chickens for his Cosmopolitan Chicken Project
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