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cell biology

Woolly mammoth

Life

Can we grow woolly mammoths in the lab? George Church hopes so

We may only be two years away from creating hybrid mammoth embryos, but that would only be the first step on a very long road towards resurrecting the animal

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A man looking exhausted

Life

Metabolic switch may bring on chronic fatigue syndrome

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cock-eyed squid

Life

Deep-sea squid points a big, bulging eye up and a tiny eye down

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Volunteers attending to stranded whales in New Zealand, 10 February 2017

Life

400 pilot whales stranded on New Zealand’s ‘whale trap’ beach

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New beetle species bites army ant’s butt and hitches a ride

Life

New beetle species bites army ant’s butt and hitches a ride

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Robotic bee could help pollinate crops as real bees decline

Life

Robotic bee could help pollinate crops as real bees decline

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Dolphins playing with hoops

Life

Synchronised swimming seems to make dolphins more optimistic

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Boat on dried-up lake floor

Life

Massive lake drained for hydropower leaves dry bed and no fish

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Bear confronts wolf carrying prey

Life

Why grey wolves kill less prey when brown bears are around

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Arabian babbler bird

Life

Bird lookouts make alarm calls to save themselves, not the group

Arabian babbler birds that go it alone continue to sound alarm calls when they see threats, showing there must be selfish motives behind sentinel behaviour

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Earth

Ocean acidification may be good for thriving marine snails

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Life

Carnivorous plants repurpose stress genes to digest their prey

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Health

Drug stops nasty chemotherapy side effects in mice with cancer

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Life

World’s most endangered marine mammal has 30 individuals left

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