IF YOU'VE ever watched your cat stare intensely out the window at a bird, making that peculiar "ek-ek-ek" chattering sound ...

Wild axolotls are facing extinction. That’s the bad news. But take heart: Cutie-pie axolotls bred in captivity may be able to ...

Seals give birth only when conditions are right. After mating, a female seal can delay implantation of the embryo in the ...

The process behind embryonic diapause could explain how cancer cells can survive long periods of metabolic stress.

Octopuses can flip from mottled rock to smooth sand in less time than it takes a human to blink, yet their eyes carry only a ...

Predators in the forest understory are learning a strange new lesson: sometimes that ominous hiss in the leaf litter is not a snake at all, but a moth that has not even finished growing its wings.

The dome shaped colonies representing diapause-like mouse embryonic stem cells. (Credit: Tarakhovsky lab) Seals give birth only when conditions are ...

The descendants of black-bear-sized giants who could haul massive rocks with their mouths, modern Castor canadensis once ...

How does mimicry affect the way we judge other people? Whose behavior do we imitate, and in what situations? It turns out that we are more likely to mimic people who express joy, and we perceive those ...

The bird commonly known as the Lazy Bird is the Cuckoo (called Koel in India). Cuckoos are labelled “lazy” not because they avoid flying or feeding themselves, but because they do not build their own ...

From water-skipping robots to elephant-skin inspired cooling materials, engineers have continued to find inspiration in ...

Structural biology is the study of the molecular structure and dynamics of biological macromolecules, particularly proteins and nucleic acids, and how alterations in their structures affect their ...