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Some plants lure pollinators with the stench of decay using a gene related to one that fights odor in human breath

How a newly named species has survived in tiny numbers for 40,000 years

The art of unseen creatures and the dawn of science

A new glimpse into their ancient history

Author Thomas Levenson on writing his new book So Very Small about humanity's struggle to accept germs' threats

Len Howard opened her cottage—and our eyes—to the birds

You have never read a science book like this

These symbols of romance are geometrical enigmas

What I discovered about my dad and myself at the lab where his brain resides

Gangs give them strength and higher status in conflicts with males

The first evolutionary tree that includes every avian species

What blinking bugs reveal about synchrony in the universe