Several new articles explore the biology of fun (and the fun of biology). Scientists present what we know about playfulness in dogs, dolphins, frogs, and octopuses. They also provide insights on ...

The other day, you were outside playing and you hit your head. Ouch! It hurt so much that you started to cry, both eyes watering. Your ears rang and you cried so hard, you started to hiccup. But you ...

A student at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, he and some of his classmates were competing in the world’s premier undergraduate competition in synthetic biology. They came up with a clever, if ...

The university has ditched traditional intro bio labs—the kinds where students learn to use a pipette or dissect an animal—in favor of a virtual reality experience set in a VR wildlife sanctuary for ...

In the future, we may be able to grow cheap-enough meat in factories rather than slaughter animals, and or edit genes so there’s no HIV or cancer, but it’s dangerous to get ahead of ourselves. You ...