
Bats have amazing immunity to disease and are the only mammals that fly. Could the two be intertwined?

Bats have amazing immunity to disease and are the only mammals that fly. Could the two be intertwined?

The ENCODE project is revealing more about the human genome.

Honeybees may help us understand human behavior at the gene level.

Were the spotted horses of ancient cave paintings real or imaginary? DNA evidence weighs in.

Massive Die-Offs, Oil and DNA Sequencing: 2011 started off with a bang—science news-wise.

2010 was a roller coaster year for science news—think exoplanets, synthetic-life, arsenic-eating bacteria (or not!), earthquakes, volcanoes and of course, the Gulf oil spill.

New discovery sheds light on plants’ ability to remember winter and bloom in spring.

Here are a few headlines to nibble on this Thanksgiving holiday.

A fossil of a Hepatitis B-like virus was found in a bird genome– how might this change the way we think about virus evolution?

This special octopus mimics other marine animals as a form of defense. How did it evolve to do this?
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