BIOLOGY

Compared to other primates, humans have shorter and deeper periods of sleep.

Hippos apparently find meat far too tasty to pass up—but that doesn't mean they should eat it.

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.

Short answer: Your internal clock doesn’t care what day it is.

Sequencing the myxozoans’ genome revealed their unlikely cnidarian origins.

The photographers captured biological principles at work through their camera lenses.

Thanks to a pair of glasses, Michael Arbeiter sees some colors for the first time.

“Rain, rain, go away, come again another day” is not a sentiment that many would disagree with. But then there’s Nepenthes gracilis, a carnivorous plant found in Southeast Asia that relies on rain to help it eat.

Stick bugs arrived on the Mascerene Islands 22 million years ago from a surprising place: Australia.

The next butterfly you see flitting about might just be a genetically modified organism, given genes from a virus that protects it from other viruses. This isn’t the work of scientists trying to save pollinators, but parasitic wasps intent on rendering th

No one has yet made an adhesive based on the spider’s glue. Now we're learning how it's affected by UV light.