Life

Animals

Big fish in troubled waters

Overfishing cuts number of large predator fish in the ocean.

Oceans

Sea changes

Carbon dioxide is making the oceans more acidic.

Animals

Eating can be skin deep

In the laboratory, bottom-dwelling hagfish absorb nutrients through the skin.

Life

Full-body taste

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

Animals

There’s no ‘i’ in elephant

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

Plants

Carnivorous plants say ‘cheese’

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

Microbes

Life in the bacterial underground

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

Chemistry

Like poison for phosphorus

Scientists report finding bacterium that can live off arsenic.

Brain

Jet lag slows hamster brains

Study suggests chronic jet lag could affect human brains too.

Animals

What the cat’s tongue catches

New study shows how cats use physics to drink.

Animals

Census of the oceans

Ten years of work reveals new species, amazing diversity.

Plants

Supersizing pumpkins

Engineers model extreme growth in fruits.