To an ant, the world is written in scent—and they read it with uncanny precision. A single colony can recognize thousands of chemical cues that...

Biofluorescence is a phenomenon in which creatures—plant or animal—absorb light at a certain wavelength and release or emit it at a different...

Imagine a machine that keeps working even when its parts change slightly or its surroundings shift. Most human-made machines would fail under that kind...

Creationists marvel that God has designed creatures both small and big to inhabit a variety of punishing habitats. These examples include the bacteria...

Big doesn’t always mean strong. Most of the time, strength comes from what something is made of. The proteins forming spider silk make that silk...

There’s certainly nothing uncomplicated about the eye, simple¹ or otherwise. Some of us remember learning about basic vision from...