Life

  1. Psychology

    Art can make science easier to remember

    Students who learn science using art remember what they learned longer than those in regular classes.

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  2. Ecosystems

    Scientists Say: Wetland

    Wetlands are land areas that are flooded with water some or all of the time. They’re more than just wet, though. They filter water, shelter young animals and much more.

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  3. Science & Society

    Some scientists ask for ban on the gene editing of babies

    Scientists and research organizations have just issued calls for a voluntary ban on editing genes that can be inherited by people.

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  4. Ecosystems

    Warming pushes lobsters and other species to seek cooler homes

    Plants and animals are moving toward the poles, changing timing of important events and more — all in response to climate change.

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  5. Ecosystems

    Photographing wildflowers and other ways you can help fight climate change

    Citizen scientists can help with climate and conservation research by counting birds, taking pictures of flowers and deciphering old weather records.

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  6. Animals

    Have we found bigfoot? Not yeti

    Believe in bigfoot or sasquatch? The scientific evidence says bears are to blame for traces of yeti and abominable snowmen. But it’s ok to keep searching.

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  7. Animals

    This spider slingshots itself at extreme speeds to catch prey

    By winding up its web like a slingshot, this spider achieves an acceleration rate far faster than a cheetah’s.

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  8. Animals

    Spiders’ weird meals show how topsy-turvy Amazon food webs can be

    Rare sightings of invertebrates eating small vertebrates upend some assumptions about who eats who in the Amazon rainforest’s complex ecosystem.

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  9. Animals

    The world’s largest bee was lost, but now it’s found

    Wallace’s giant bee hadn’t been spotted in the wild in almost 40 years. Now, scientists have found it again.

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  10. Animals

    How these maggots efficiently demolish a pizza

    Mobs of black soldier fly larvae create a living fountain that lifts slowpoke noneaters out of the way.

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  11. Animals

    Hermit crabs are drawn to the smell of their dead

    A new study finds that the smell of hermit-crab flesh attracts other hermit crabs desperately looking for a larger home.

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  12. Environment

    Life on Earth is mostly green

    A new survey of life on Earth finds that plants and microbes dominate. But even though humans are in the minority, they still play a major role.

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