Wednesday, 8 February, 2012

After boy and girl mosquitoes meet, they synchronize their wingbeats. What does this tell us about how insects use sound?

Evolution favors tiny sperm, which boost a guys chance of fertilizing an egg. So why do some fruit flies make giant sperm?

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.