Was wheat tamed in 200 years or less? New information on the origin of agriculture in the Middle East shows the process may have taken millennia…

During Hurricane Charley, ocean fish sing their mating songs louder and longer.

Animals watch others and change their behavior to match.

Giant Australian cuttlefish cross-dresses to mate. Small males temporarily look like females, mating right under the noses of the big boys!

Like a chamberful of pork-barreling legislators, cicadas are on the wing in Washington, D.C. Voracious. Unstoppable. A force of nature: 17-year cicadas are back!

Flower power: Orchid makes a chemical that attracts wasps by mimicking female pheromone.

Edible vaccines offer cheap, easy solution to halt disease in developing countries, but roadblocks remain. Is this an acceptable type of gene-modified food?

Sexual motivation for birdsong involves hormones, the medial preoptic brain area and environment in European starlings.

Genetic engineering may not be the best way to make more food; plant breeding remains vital. As grain production flattens, should we be supporting more plant breeders?

Song competition among chickadees sets females’ reproductive strategy. Guys: Time to learn to sing?