
Animals
People and animals sometimes team up to hunt for food
Dolphins working with people to catch fish recently made a big splash. But humans have a long history of cooperating with other animals.
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Dolphins working with people to catch fish recently made a big splash. But humans have a long history of cooperating with other animals.
Linking types of bacteria to specific flavors could help cheesemakers tweak their products — or even develop new cheese flavor.
Gray wolves infected with Toxoplasma gondii make riskier decisions. This makes them more likely to become pack leaders or strike out on their own.
In kids with severe tooth decay, fungi and bacteria team up to create superorganisms that can crawl across teeth.
Broken spikes on a fossil dino’s sides are consistent with the armored beast having received a mighty blow from another ankylosaur’s tail club.
The tiny plastic bits give these germs safe havens. That protection seems to increase as the plastic ages and breaks into ever smaller pieces.
Adding a therapy used to treat asthma improved cat allergy symptoms for more than a year, a small study found.
Infections range from mild illnesses, such as the common cold, to deadly diseases, such as rabies.
Long, thin bacteria that conduct electricity may be able to help clean up oil spills and reduce emissions of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas.
One gene drive to eliminate malaria seems to work in the lab. Now it’s time to ask local people if they want it released in the wild.