Calcium equity within cells

How calcium ions are distributed equitably inside a human cell

Cellular compass

Researchers try to find out how cells seek direction

The mystery about gaps

Birds stammer, too

Jumbo went fishing!

Elephants used to be aquatic mammals

Sensitive ones

Marine census

Global effort to map microbes gets underway

Panel urges teachers, parents to get their facts straight on evolution

Overwhelmingly WEIRD!

The edifice of Western science is built on generalisation, where homogeneity has replaced diversity

What shaped human intelligence?

Scientists are trying to uncover the adaptive pressures that transformed primates into intelligent humans

Immortality is mathematically impossible, new research finds

A mathematical equation has proven that controlling one of the two major changes in a cell—decay or cancerous growth—enhances the …

Beyond beginning

A recent finding boosts Darwin's wisdom about the origin of species and questions what is known as 'biology's Big Bang'

Mite but mighty!

The key to unravelling the mysteries of the earth could actually lie in the functioning of organisms so small that a million of them could be …

Bacteria need a quorum, too

As any sensible invader, virulent bacteria ensure that there are enough of them before they attack

Anatomy of happiness

Stefan Klein explores the complex interplay between positive and negative emotions

All birds in one tree

Scientists develop phylogenetic tree linking all bird species

Spit and know your future

Personal genomics makes individualised healthcare possible; but experts remain wary

Lord of the fIies

Thefruitflies seem to live longer on a poor diet. Why?

Mixed-up confusion

Traits that help one sex may harm the other

Number game

Species diversity alone is not the whole story of evolution

Nerves of steel

Natural antifreeze

To trust or

Guess what is common to viral strains that infect bacteria and two supposed partners in crime

Lethal maternal cells

Sucking secrets