Zoology
This Animal Hides Using—& Is Kept Up by—Its Own Glowing Head
The Hawaiian bobtail squid uses an interesting camouflage strategy.
How and Why Computers Roll Loaded Dice
Researchers are one step closer to injecting probability into deterministic machines.
Welcome Back, Animals!
It’s time to consider how we can have more animals in our daily lives in the city.
The Unintended Beauty of Starlings
Those wondrous, undulating flocks are stirred by predators.
The Tricky Problem with Other Minds
How our mental states overlap with and diverge from those of other species.
It Takes a Village to Raise a Meerkat
What the rare cooperative species tells us about ourselves.
We Need Insects More Than They Need Us
Inside the world of plastic-eating worms, dung-rolling beetles, and agricultural ants..
