A nectar-feeding bat uses a blood-powered hydraulic process to control hair-like structures on its tongue to efficiently slurp up the sugary liquid from flowers.
A nectar-feeding bat uses a blood-powered hydraulic process to control hair-like structures on its tongue to efficiently slurp up the sugary liquid from flowers.
Living fossils not so fossilized; Canadian gov’t threatens scientists’ freedom to speak and publish; gene therapy for sensory disorders; an unusual theory of cancer; clues for an HIV vaccine
Physicists and biologists are working together to understand cooperation at all levels of life, from the cohesion of molecules to interspecies interactions.
How photosynthetic organisms get taken up, passed around, and discarded throughout the eukaryotic domain
Snapshots from an annual meeting that celebrates the birth of a prominent biologist
A conference, started 10 years ago partly as a disease ecologist’s birthday party, has become one of the most valued meetings in the field.
Amid controversy, hominin shoulder-bones suggest that our bipedal relatives still climbed trees.
Scientists ask the NSF to reconsider a granting mechanism they say could hurt junior faculty.
Fossils from northern Kenya point to a new human species that lived in Africa nearly 2 million years ago.
Mitochondria mutations that affect male, but not female, aging could explain why women tend to live longer than men.