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Hot African fossil beds preserved a molecular record in the hardest tissue a vertebrate makes.
A block of balsa became an electronic switch after its empty cellulose channels were filled with conductive polymer.
Before a crow made the first sound, its hesitation already hinted at how many calls it intended to produce.
At one appointed minute, Sweden stopped, shifted, and restarted on the other side of the road.
An entire whale population can abandon one intricate song, adopt a simpler import, and begin embellishing all over again.
A laser checks each imperfect layer, and the printer compensates on the next pass instead of scraping the soft polymers flat.
A carefully timed dose of light, oxygen, and humidity immobilized electronic traps that normally steal useful charge inside the crystal.
An octopus gathers debris under its arm web, points its siphon through the load, and turns a jet of water into an underwater throw.
Mary Golda Ross moved from calculating aircraft loads to charting routes toward Mars and Venus, while much of the work between remained classified.
At Indian Ocean vents, one snail grows overlapping foot scales that can acquire a coat of iron sulfide from the surrounding chemistry.
