
For swimming through sand, a slick and slender snake can perform better than a short and stubby lizard.

Mixing oil with dispersant increased toxicity to Gulf’s ecosystems

New research from Georgia Aquarium and Georgia Institute of Technology provides evidence that a suite of techniques called “metabolomics” can be used to determine the health status of whale sharks, the world’s largest fish species.

With no biological program to drive it, physics forces multicellular clusters to reproduce and evolve.
