Essays
Why your dog can't face Jasprit Bumrah
Only humans can excel at high-velocity ball sports which place extreme demands on an athlete's sensorimotor system.
Chemical puppeteers
They're in your backyard, and they're deadly at creating 'zombies'. Their evolutionary adaptation holds exciting possibilities for biomedical research.
Breathtaking feats
Freediving whales, and some remarkable humans, offer startling technology-enhanced insights into extreme mammalian physiology.
In perfect sync
Starlings and locusts seem to make decisions in concert in a striking exhibition of groupthink. This offers clues to how complex systems work.
The python, the godwit and you
The wondrous physiological adaptations that animals make demonstrate how nature's diversity works, and hold lessons for humans.
