Wonder what your plants are ‘saying’? Device lets you listen in
A small device lets researchers, farmers and amateur plant lovers listen in to electrical changes inside their plants – Penny Sarchet tried it out
Rip up the rule book and let NASA’s Mars rover check ‘life’ zone
Contamination fears should not stop NASA sending its Mars rover to examine a nearby area that might contain water… and life, says Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Humanity Is Killing Off Thousands of Species. But It’s Creating Them, Too
Absurd Creatures: Someone Tell the Tree Kangaroo to Get Down From There
Elderly monkeys choose to have fewer friends – just like us
As we age, we choose to spend less time socialising, and only with our favourite people. Now we know that elderly Barbary macaques do the same – but why?
New life form discovered in saliva is linked to human disease
Bacteria that parasitise other bacteria have been found for the first time, and are linked to gum disease, cystic fibrosis and antimicrobial resistance
Inside the US Army Lab Racing to Create a Zika Vaccine
A New Model Organism Could Double the Pace of Biology
Absurd Creatures: You’d Look Pissed Too if You Had This Critter’s Sex Life
Is NASA doing enough to look for alien life?
A new study says Hubble's successor could spot alien life on three new exoplanets. Should NASA be doing more? Or is it right to focus on other priorities?