Life

  1. Life

    Full-body taste

    Turns out that the tongue isn’t the only place where the body can taste what you ate.

    By Douglas Fox
  2. Animals

    There’s no ‘i’ in elephant

    These clever mammals may know when two trunks are better than one.

    By Stephen Ornes
  3. Plants

    Carnivorous plants say ‘cheese’

    It took high-speed cameras to reveal how the bladderwort gets lunch.

    By Stephen Ornes
  4. Microbes

    Life in the bacterial underground

    Tiny life forms in rock may coax minerals to release hydrogen for food.

    By Stephen Ornes
  5. Chemistry

    Like poison for phosphorus

    Scientists report finding bacterium that can live off arsenic.

    By Stephen Ornes
  6. Brain

    Jet lag slows hamster brains

    Study suggests chronic jet lag could affect human brains too.

    By Stephen Ornes
  7. Animals

    What the cat’s tongue catches

    New study shows how cats use physics to drink.

    By Stephen Ornes
  8. Animals

    Census of the oceans

    Ten years of work reveals new species, amazing diversity.

    By Stephen Ornes
  9. Plants

    Supersizing pumpkins

    Engineers model extreme growth in fruits.

    By Alexandra Witze
  10. Fossils

    Prehistoric air travel

    Flying reptiles might have crossed oceans, continents nonstop.

    By Stephen Ornes
  11. Tech

    Crawling, nano-sized robots

    Built from DNA, these teeny bots move as directed.

    By Stephen Ornes
  12. Brain

    Bullying is an everyday problem

    New work is showing that the best way to stop bullying is to keep it from ever starting.

    By Emily Sohn