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cell biology

Mussels

Life

Mussel-inspired plastic could make self-repairing body armour

Mussels grip onto rock using stretchy fibres with self-repairing molecular bonds. Mimicking the trick has inspired an extremely tough and elastic new material

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Oysters

Life

Oysters can ‘hear’ the ocean even though they don’t have ears

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What the controversial ‘human’ teeth fossils really tell us

Humans

What the controversial ‘human’ teeth fossils really tell us

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Geese-like birds seem to have survived the dinosaur extinction

Life

Geese-like birds seem to have survived the dinosaur extinction

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A tui singing in a tree

Life

Songbird gets angry when its rivals are brilliant at singing

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Dogs really can smell your fear, and then they get scared too

Life

Dogs really can smell your fear, and then they get scared too

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Destinies

Life

Is evolution about chance or fate? Well, it depends

Culture

Koltsov

Life

The bourgeois biologist who sparked Russia's genetics revolution

Features

Beetle

Life

Museum safari: The myriad unknown species lost in dusty drawers

Features

bioinformation

Technology

Too much information? The data-driven future of health

Ever more bioinformation is readily available through tracking devices and databases – but does it risk getting up too close and personal, asks a new book

Culture

Life

Natural history books that look inside the minds of animals

Culture

Life

Blind cave fish lost eyes by unexpected evolutionary process

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Life

Perfectly preserved fossil salamander even has last meal in gut

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Technology

The dearth of women in tech is nothing to do with testosterone

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