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  1. Eavesdropping on gerbil dialects

    Families of Mongolian gerbils communicate using different vocal patterns, which may help individuals identify their relatives.

  2. A biological approach to pain relief

    Tissues routinely discarded after human births may be converted into treatments that help reduce post-surgical pain.

  3. The evolution of a beetle family

    A combination of DNA sampling and fossils have allowed researchers to study how environmental changes impacted the evolutionary history of Belidae beetles.

  4. Navigating by night

    Bull ants use the patterns created when moonlight is polarised by the atmosphere to navigate back to their nests at night.

  5. Polarized cells

    Three Wnt signaling proteins help to organize cells in the gonads of a nematode worm.

  6. How to undo an R-loop

    A molecular machine called the Smc5/6 complex helps repair an intricate form of genetic damage.

  7. Controlling the genes of a parasite

    Plasmodium falciparum, which is responsible for the most fatal forms of malaria, needs a protein called MORC to maintain the structure of its DNA.

  8. Context is everything

    How the brain processes concepts is influenced by contextual information, such as what a person is seeing, suggests new study.
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