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cell biology

Daubenton's bat (Myotis daubentonii) Credit: Jens Rydell

Life

Bats and death metal singers use the same throat structure to growl

Daubenton’s bats use false vocal folds in their throat to produce a lower frequency grunt for communication – the same structure that lets death metal singers growl

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Cymatioa cooki

Life

Tiny clam that was thought to be extinct found alive

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Ant on a small plant

Life

Ants have evolved to farm plants on at least 15 separate occasions

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Erect crested penguins

Life

Erect-crested penguins always reject their first egg and lay another

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Scar marks across the seabed indicate scallop dredging continues legally inside the protected area

Environment

Dredging in crucial habitat sparks row over UK marine protected areas

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Illustration of a ribosome

Life

Self-replicating protein factories are a step towards artificial life

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Megalodon

Life

Ancient megalodon shark could eat a whale in just a few bites

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Indo-Pacific sponge Chelonaplysilla sp.

Life

Sponges can ‘sneeze’ and other sea creatures eat their mucus

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Five green slender pitcher plants are suspended on vines

Life

Pitcher plants use raindrop impacts to fling insects into their trap

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3D shape of a protein

Life

AlphaFold: Why DeepMind’s protein-folding AI is transformational

Understanding proteins and their complex 3D shapes is key to understanding life, and especially for developing drugs

Analysis

Life

Southern fin whales have recovered to large numbers in the Antarctic

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Life

Snapping shrimps have helmets to ward off shock waves from their claws

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Mind

How do we sense time? The brain cells that order our memories

Features

Life

Australian seagrass has cloned itself to cover 180 kilometres of coast

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