BIOLOGY

At only 3 inches long and weighing about 60 grams, the uterus isn’t a flashy, attention-grabbing organ. But it is pretty amazing.

You wouldn't want to bump into this guy on a midnight swim.

Proof that it only takes a second for alcohol to totally mess with your body.

Tropical slipper limpets are pretty unremarkable—until it's mating time. Then things get interesting.

Scientists are trying to better understand their iridescent shades.

A bit of physics and biology are to blame.

One of the things that makes people so special is that we’re all different. Each person you meet has their own special talents, their own favorite food, and a different face looking back at them in the mirror.

The aptly named shark is cloaked in black from head to tail and emits a faint blue glow.

And they could help determine time of death. Paging CSI.

Burrows with high levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) can become death traps for the insects.

A new study shows that ant colonies act like “a single organism would in response to attacks on different parts of its body.”