Sonoran CSI

Little water, sweaty, hot summer days and frigid winter nights make the desert an uninviting place for most animals and plants. But hiding just below the surface, the desert is alive with microbes—tiny, living things too small to see without magnification.

PLOSable Tree Aided Ants

Plants need help to get by when water is limited. For some plants it is their ant partners that come to their aide. Learn more about how these two species work together.

Spaced out Physiology

Being an astronaut is a cool job, but before you sign up you should know life in space isn’t all fun and games.  The lack of gravity can make our bodies act in strange ways.