Gecko glue exploits mussel power
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The remarkable adhesive abilities of geckos and mussels have been combined to create "geckel" glue.
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Researchers are undertaking a mammoth effort to observe oceanic life using fiber optics and the Internet.
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Small cuttlefish males are mimicking females to trick their larger rivals, US scientists have reported.
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While some scientists try to build nano machines from scratch, others are discovering uses for single-celled organisms that are already available. By Monya Baker from Wired magazine.
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It's time for a research resurgence into using small water plants to produce oil and ethanol. In Autopia.
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The therapeutic power of flowers takes on new meaning with a Japanese gadget that turns plants into audio speakers.
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By LEE TOLLIVER,  It's wahoo time.  The offshore waters of Virginia and North Carolina have been teeming with wahoo - long, slender, toothy critters that resemble a barracuda on steroids.
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Sheets of elastic, sticky polymers could replace sutures and provide long-term drug delivery.
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Scientists working to build a life form from scratch have patented the method they plan to use.
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By Constance Loizos, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Jun.
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A rapid technique for isolating DNA in hair provides a new route to study the genetics of extinct creatures.
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Who needs a man? Female sharks can fertilize their own eggs with sperm, says a new study being published Wednesday.
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By JOHN FLESHER  TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. - It hardly seems fair, but water creatures nimble enough to avoid being gobbled up by predators might harm their species more than help, new research suggests.
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A farmed fish could be used to produce a  treatment for haemophiliacs and internal bleeding, scientists believe.
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Electro-shock therapy is being tested as a way of saving some of the world's endangered corals.
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The chemical con trick used by Alcon blue butterfly larvae to get ants to take care of them is detailed by scientists.
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The genetic map of a type of teeny-weeny ocean algae could have a big impact on how scientists try to protect the Earth&#39;s oceans from greenhouse gases.