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Animals’ Wildly Varying Reactions to the Smell of Death

Cadaverine and putrescine are the chemicals responsible for the dead-flesh stench.

November 18, 2013

Nature, the IT Wizard

Nature manages information, the currency of life, with exquisite efficiency.

November 11, 2013

Meet Your Body’s Death Eaters

From brain to blood to bone, macrophages take out our cellular trash.

November 11, 2013

What If Obesity Is Nobody’s Fault?

Meet the mice that are changing the obesity conversation.

November 11, 2013

Reading the Book of Life in Prehistoric Dung

“Paleoscatologist” Karen Chin has uncovered the humble origin of life after dinosaurs.

November 11, 2013

Evolution in a Finite World

Why is sexual reproduction so common in nature?

November 11, 2013