Zoology
To Save Sharks, We Must Understand People
In Sri Lanka, laws are supposed to protect sharks—but what if people won’t obey the laws?
The Fungal Evangelist Who Would Save the Bees
How mushrooms could solve colony collapse disorder.
No, Animals Do Not Have Genders
How do we know that gender is not simply a biological fact? What makes it cultural, rather than analogous to sex-differentiated behavior in animals?
There’s a World Living on Every Loggerhead
Scientists from Darwin on have marveled at how these sea turtles transport other species across the ocean. New research suggests they're even better at it than we thought.
The Grace of Manta Rays
New research suggests that manta rays aren’t just solitary ocean wanderers. They’re also shaping the undersea environment in ways we never imagined
This Animal Hides Using—& Is Kept Up by—Its Own Glowing Head
The Hawaiian bobtail squid uses an interesting camouflage strategy.
How and Why Computers Roll Loaded Dice
Researchers are one step closer to injecting probability into deterministic machines.
