The neurobiologist Erich Jarvis studies the few species capable of speech. He has long hoped to genetically engineer an ...

Most people assume that if a bird's parents migrate south every winter, the chicks will simply follow that same script ...

The act of puncture – stabbing something with a sharp tool – is incredibly widespread in the natural world. Examples of ...

As this year’s invertebrate of the year competition launches, we join scientists studying last year’s winner ...

The Multi-Sensory Convergence Ladder: As signals ascend deeper into the fish’s forebrain, specifically into a structure called the pallium, single-sense neurons give way to multi-sensory cells. This ...

Line up the brains of a fish, bird and a mammal, and something unexpected comes up. You do not see three different answers to the problem of making sense of the world. You see one answer, tilted three ...

Scientists at the University of Minnesota have engineered "SpudCell," a lab-made entity from lifeless chemicals that mimics ...

Once you start seeing natural selection as a constant, omnipresent, and sometimes speedy force, almost everything else in ...

A tiny zebrafish, separated from us by more than 400 million years of evolution, sorts and then combines its senses in the ...

Modern genetic research is “pushing the boundaries of what’s possible” by bringing extinct animals back to life, but could it ...

The first six months of the year have brought us popular science reads on everything from consciousness to cosmology. Liz ...

The situation is dire from an ecological perspective. For years, hunters, hikers and others have for years reported that ...