A daily dose of torpor helps desert-dwelling marsupials make it through chilly nights.

As the year draws to a close,

Staff and science cut as museum's endowments crash.

Dispute could stymie efforts to save rare honeycreeper.

The current crisis in worldwide food prices reinforces the need for more productive agriculture. Emma Marris meets five ambitious scientists determined to stop the world from going hungry.

Why movement researchers are pushing for a unifying framework.

Survey tracks world's most endangered marine mammal.

Rising carbon dioxide levels will make oceans more hostile to life.

Findings reignite debate over genetically modified crops.

Eggs laid by two females in the giant tortoise's enclosure are unlikely to hatch.

Octopus origins, shark migrations and giant bacteria to be unveiled

Incoming director-general aims to reinvigorate medial institution.

Results dismissing link to fish mortality are called into question.

Texas facility cleared to analyse lethal pathogens.

If you want to start an argument, ask the person who just said 'paradigm shift' what it really means. Or 'epigenetic'.

Global crop yields have not suffered even though key insect populations have shrunk.

Legal and academic wrangling sees biologists accused of "crying wolf".