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marine biology

Sea life in the Ordovician period

Life

Ocean life surged 500 million years ago due to cooler sea temperatures

A fall in sea surface temperatures around 500 million years ago led to the evolution of aquatic life that could survive in newly hospitable environments

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Cultured MDCK cells

Life

Some of our cells move – and they do it by emitting lots of chemicals

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Alaska brown bear fishing in the Brooks River

Life

Fat Bear Week: How Alaska's brown bears nearly double in size

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Free will

Mind

Free will: Can neuroscience reveal if your choices are yours to make?

Features

Illustration of a Trilobite Gut Fossil.

Life

Ancient trilobite stuffed itself with food almost to bursting point

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box jellyfish

Life

Jellyfish can learn from experience even though they lack a brain

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Health

We now know how many cells there are in the human body

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Nature is a quantum engineer

Physics

Why nature is the ultimate quantum engineer

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Life

Invasive blue crabs are poised to devastate the global clam supply

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An MRI scan of a section through the chest and heart of someone who had a heart attack showing damage and swelling (yellow, centre)

Health

Cells from discarded placentas may help to treat heart attacks

After noticing that some heart problems resolve during pregnancy, researchers have shown cells in the placenta can turn into functioning heart cells in the lab

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Life

The delightfully bizarre creatures that live near deep-sea vents

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Life

Photos capture mission to rescue seagrass meadows in the the Baltic

Regulars

Comment

From One Cell review: Embryology and the future of medicine

Culture

Video

Project aims to grow one million seagrass plants in Mediterranean Sea

Video

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