Seahorse Love Works in Mysterious Ways
Seahorses don’t care if there’s plenty other fish in the sea.
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Salt Taste Is Surprisingly Mysterious
Too much sodium is bad, but so is too little—no wonder the body has two sensing mechanisms.
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Can We Stop Time in the Body?
Inside the “out there” quest for a drug that would help doctors save lives before it’s too late.
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The Social Life of Bats
They sing, have dialects, reserve special tones for their pups—our reporter journeys to Mozambique to explore the unique communication of bats.
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Call of the Liar
The spot-on imitations of other birds by the Australian lyrebird exemplify what Darwin missed about female birdsong.
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Elephants Never Forget War
Violence is written in their genes.
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Charles Henry Turner’s Insights Into Animal Behavior Were a Century Ahead of Their Time
Researchers are rediscovering the forgotten legacy of a pioneering Black scientist who conducted trailblazing research on the cognitive traits of bees, spiders, and more.
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Blindness Is a Strange Country
What I’m finding as I lose my sight.
