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  1. Tech

    Voltage from the Bottom of the Sea: Ooze-dwelling microbes can power electronics

    Some types of bacteria living in seafloor mud can generate enough electricity to power small electronic devices.

    By Sid Perkins
  2. Animals

    Altruistic Sperm: Mouse gametes team up to power one winner

    The sperm of wood mice hook together by the thousands to form high-speed teams racing toward an egg, even though only one of the pack will get the prize.

    By Susan Milius
  3. Materials Science

    Healing Wounds: Interactive dressing speeds the process

    A new, easily prepared hydrogel material promotes more rapid wound healing in laboratory animals than do conventional dressings.

    By Jessica Gorman
  4. Animals

    Pesticides Mess with Immunity: Double whammy promotes frog deformities

    Agricultural pollutants may conspire with parasites to cause the epidemic of limb deformity that's sweeping through North America's frog populations.