Dolphins, like us, live in social communities, offering opportunities to learn behaviours from others. Our study reveals that a dolphins’ foraging technique called ‘shelling’ spreads among peers, suggesting that the nature of their social learning strategies is more similar to that of great apes, human’s closest relatives, than previously thought.

Honey bees are essential industrious insects, which pollinate crops and help ensure you have enough food to eat. But their health is threatened by viruses and parasites. New technology genetically engineers bacteria inhabiting the bee gut to boost bee immunity and help them fight off their enemies.

The absurdly long neck of the ancient reptile Tanystropheus represents a true evolutionary enigma. A new high-resolution 3D imaging of its skull suggests that two different, but closely related Tanystropheus species co-existed and that they had two very different approaches to life underwater with an extremely long neck.

Standing on Earth we can only see one side of the moon, but what about the other side? China’s Chang’E-4 mission becomes the first one that has successfully investigated the lunar farside and revealed its underground layered architectures.

Cancer tissues are often thought to be sterile entities in the human body, exempt from the influence of our microbial cohabitants. To test this theory, we examined genetic information from patients’ tumors and blood and discovered cancer-specific microbial communities among more than 30 cancer types. This study proposes a new class of microbial-based cancer diagnostics.

How was the Earth formed? The age of its neighbor, the Moon, tells us much about the history of our planet. We propose a new method to more accurately estimate how old the Moon is by considering crucial early events, in particular crystallization of the lunar magma ocean.