Life

Animals

Bee heat cooks invaders

Certain honeybees in Asia use their body heat to kill attacking wasps.

Plants

Cactus goo for clean water

A cactus commonly found in Mexico can help clean up dirty water.

Plants

Bright blooms that glow

Certain flowers fluoresce, giving off a spooky light.

Psychology

Pain expectations

How painful you expect something to be beforehand can affect how you actually feel when you're hurt.

Animals

From Chimps to People

Although chimpanzees and people share many genes, there are key biological differences.

Animals

Copybees

Bees can learn about new food sources by spying on each other.

Tech

Roboroach and company

Cockroaches and lobsters inspire robots that navigate in darkness and track smells.

Animals

Who’s knocking?

Recordings of calls and drumming provide new evidence that the ivory-billed woodpecker survives.

Animals

Walktopus

Some octopuses can walk, using two of their eight arms to scoot backward.

Life

Algae motors

Single-cell algae can haul hefty loads.

Brain

Monkeys in the Mirror

Capuchin monkeys react to their own mirror images in surprising ways.

Fossils

Dino Babies

Fossilized eggs suggest that baby dinosaurs may have relied on grown-ups for help.