We’re all familiar with La Jolla’s sea lions, harbor seals, orcas, garibaldi and seabirds. But in this series of stories called Species of the Month, the Light sheds light on other, lesser-known ...

“We cannot solve a problem by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” - Albert Einstein “I try to catch flies in cups and put them outside. After I wrote ‘The Underland ...

Bootlace worms with spooky-stretchy bodies secrete a family of toxins new to scientists. These compounds might inspire novel ways to attack pests such as cockroaches. The newly described nemertides ...

Zombies are real, and nature is teeming with them. Fungi take over the brains of ants, wasps paralyze cockroaches—a practice called zombification. “Scientists have found that fungi, bacteria, wasps, ...