Mary Hagedorn is racing to save Earth’s coral reefs by developing techniques for freezing the colonial animals’ gametes.

Meet the people trying to save a research colony of rhesus macaques living on a small island off the coast of hurricane ravaged Puerto Rico.

University of California, Riverside, plant biologist Katie Dehesh explains the importance of agricultural research.

Japanese honeybees (Apis cerana japonica) respond to an attack by a Vespa mandarinia wasp.

Dave Thomas, a researcher at the National Institute on Drug Abuse, talks about the harsh truths and frustrating complexity of pain and analgesia.

Cone snail venom researcher Mandë Holford discusses the therapeutic potential of toxins found in animals.

Author Emma Byrne runs down the benefits of cursing, among them an enhanced ability to withstand pain.

Profilee Joseph Gall of the Carnegie Institute describes the process, which he developed in the 1960s.

See whip spiders use their curious antenniform legs to spar in the lab.

Watch a mantis shrimp punch its prey into submission using its specialized hammers.