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Bioluminescence can be used for myriad purposes in different species. This recently discovered species of annelid, Swima bombaviridis, probably uses bioluminescence to escape from predators.

Welcome to the inaugural episode of Simply Science. Please join us every week as Adam Weiss interviews leading scientists and asks them to explain phenomena of science in brief, visual ways. In this episode, Dr. Margaret Livingstone of the Livingstone lab at Harvard teaches Adam why Leonardo da Vinc...

With the advent of submarine warfare, the ability to locate large underwater objects with SONAR became of prime strategic importance. Active SONAR detects objects by listening for echos from pulses of sound. As SONAR became more widely used, though, some very strange things were seen in the open oce...

The marine snail Cyphoma gibbosum browses on the polyps of soft corals (top). It appears to have a brightly spotted shell, but when disturbed the spots begin to move (middle) and then retract within the white shell, along with the rest of the animal (bottom).

In this episode, Ilona interviews Diane O'Dowd, HHMI Professor at University of California Irvine, and creator of 'garage demos'. Gargage demos are Dr. O'Dowd's way to turn science students into active participants during the teaching and learning process.

In the course of evolution organisms sometimes acquire completely new and sometimes dramatic features, like horns or new appendages.

Reproduction is a complex business, and often requires that the partners meet. Polychaete worms belonging to Odontosyllis have developed a highly elaborate mating behavior that includes bioluminescent signals.

In Episode 2 of CreatureCast, Sophia Tintori and Cassandra Extavour talk about the evolution and development of multicellular organisms, and in particular the specialization of reproductive cells.

In my last blog post (Three's Company: A Trio of Americans Wins the Nobel Prize), I wrote about the winners of this year's Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider, and Jack Szostak...

Is making music something that is uniquely human? Are our musical tastes too complex to be understood and replicated? Perhaps not.

Thank you for participating in Nature Publishing Group's survey of scientists with professional responsibilities at the undergraduate/tertiary educational level. This survey isintended to discover and ...

Eric Roettinger and Mattias Ormestad have launched kahikai.org to showcase some of their beautiful animal photographs.

Jorge Cham started drawing the comic Piled Higher and Deeper (PhDComics) in 1997, while still a grad student at Stanford University. A PhD in Mechanical Engineering and years later, the comic strip is ever so popular with a worldwide fan base. His website is a huge hit, and his comics are also avai...