Bees and fish 'talk' to each other in unprecedented interspecies experiment
March 22, 2019, 4:31 p.m. by Bryan Nelson
These very distinct species talked via a robot translator.
How crabs and trees could soon replace plastic
July 25, 2018, 12:44 p.m. by Noel Kirkpatrick
Watch out, oil-based plastics: Your days are numbered.
Cows are testing the Fitbits of the future
May 17, 2018, 11:36 a.m. by Noel Kirkpatrick
Emedivet is helping farmers keep track of their cows' health an implantable device, but the ultimate goal is to get the devices into humans.
For a quick lesson on gene editing or blockchain, there's Five Levels of Difficulty
February 20, 2018, 5:21 p.m. by Shea Gunther
Video series challenges an expert to explain a complicated concept to people at five levels of expertise.
Mystery about life's building blocks solved by quantum study
February 4, 2018, 2:52 p.m. by Bryan Nelson
Quantum theory offers an answer to one of the oldest and most fundamental questions in biochemistry.
Glowing plants might soon light your home
December 18, 2017, 6:58 p.m. by Bryan Nelson
Scientists created the glowing effect without any genetic modification.
Spider drinks graphene, spins web that can hold the weight of a human
September 1, 2017, 11:51 p.m. by Bryan Nelson
The webbing was on par with bulletproof Kevlar in strength.
Common caterpillar found to eat plastic shopping bags
April 24, 2017, 6:54 p.m. by Bryan Nelson
It could represent a biodegradable solution to the omnipresent pollution clogging our landfills.
Silkworms fed carbon nanotubes produce super-silk that conducts electricity
October 12, 2016, 2:09 a.m. by Bryan Nelson
The enhanced silk was also 50 percent stronger than the regular stuff.
Bionic leaf converts solar energy into liquid fuel
August 12, 2016, 1:13 p.m. by Bryan Nelson
Photovoltaic cells convert the sun's energy into electricity — but what if solar energy could instead be converted directly into liquid fuel?
Development of bomb-sniffing cyborg locusts officially underway
July 6, 2016, 1:03 p.m. by Michael d'Estries
The Office of Naval Research hopes to harness locusts' powerful sense of smell to protect soldiers on the battlefield.
Bacteria can be turned into living hard drives
June 11, 2016, 3:43 p.m. by Bryan Nelson
When scientists add code to bacterial DNA, it's passed on to the next generation.
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