Life
- Brain
Reading Body Language
The emotion that your body shows may have a stronger effect than what your face says.
By Katie Greene - Animals
Fishing for Giant Squid
An underwater camera has snapped the first pictures of a live giant squid.
By Emily Sohn - Animals
Sea lilies on the run
A video shows that sea animals known as stalked crinoids do more than just creep along.
By Emily Sohn - Animals
A Spider’s Taste for Blood
Certain jumping spiders prey on mosquitoes that have drawn blood from animals.
By Emily Sohn - Earth
Detecting an eerie sea glow
At night, glowing bacteria can give large areas of the sea a surreal milky color.
By Emily Sohn - Animals
Bee heat cooks invaders
Certain honeybees in Asia use their body heat to kill attacking wasps.
By Emily Sohn -
- Plants
Cactus goo for clean water
A cactus commonly found in Mexico can help clean up dirty water.
By Emily Sohn - Psychology
Pain expectations
How painful you expect something to be beforehand can affect how you actually feel when you're hurt.
By Emily Sohn - Animals
From Chimps to People
Although chimpanzees and people share many genes, there are key biological differences.
By Emily Sohn -
- Tech
Roboroach and company
Cockroaches and lobsters inspire robots that navigate in darkness and track smells.
By Sarah Webb