Animal emotion remains a fairly contentious area of scientific research, but there is a growing body of evidence to support the idea…

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As the Northern Hemisphere shivers through winter, bacteria in Antarctica are employing an inventive strategy to survive the extreme cold: they use…

The ability to navigate using the earth’s magnetic field is a skill that is not unique to humans. Over the last few…

Health risks can be frightening, but ignorance to these risks can be even more terrifying. In the past, we have discussed a…

New Year’s festivities have come and gone, and now, a few weeks into 2013, a few earnestly made resolutions may have fallen…

Unfortunately, increasing numbers of us are experiencing this year’s particularly brutal seasonal flu (most frequently influenza A, subtype H3N2). The CDC’s latest…

The vibrant colors in the image above show the levels of oxygen saturation in a breast tumor; note the prevalence of shades…

The photo above comes to us from a remote part of the Andes, at the base of the active volcano Socompa. Lake…

The ocean teems with millions of plants, animals and other organisms, and keeping track of this vast inventory can be quite a…

What a year it has been! As 2013 commences we would like to take a moment to recognize the peer reviewers that…

As we start off the New Year, we wanted to take a quick moment and highlight a few noteworthy papers published in…