biology

The fisher can be found throughout Massachusetts, except for the islands.

Over the last 20 years, Lyme disease has changed the way many people look at a simple walk in the woods. What if Lyme could be prevented — not by hypervigilance, but by treating wild animals with antibiotics, similar to how we use edible baits to vaccinate wild raccoons against rabies?CAI’s Jennette Barnes talked with Kim Lewis, professor of biology at Northeastern University, about that and other new developments in the fight against Lyme disease.

If you go into the backyard after dusk this time of year, you may get treated to the greenish yellow flashes of the firefly. But what do the flashes mean?…

Since honeybees are the original “hive mind,” what can we learn from these social insects?Thomas Seeley is the Horace White Professor in Biology at…

Deep-sea hydrothermal vents were discovered forty years ago, surprising scientists who thought the deep sea floor was devoid of life. Today, we know that…

Death may be inevitable. But what about aging? If we could figure out what biological switches get flipped to start the process of decline, could we…

Monarch butterflies are in trouble. Populations have declined steeply in recent years. A 2017 report found that monarchs in the Western U.S. could be…

Monarch butterflies are in trouble. Populations have declined steeply in recent years. A 2017 report found that monarchs in the Western U.S. could be…