Aspirin works by disabling the chemicals that cause our pain. Now scientists have discovered that aspirin also works to shut down a plant's response to injury. Aspirin shuts off the plant's production of jasmonic acid, even though jasmonic acid is not at all similar to human pain‑causing chemicals.

Two strange species of orchids are among the rarest flowers in the world. These unconventional plants live their entire lives underground, even flowering underground. Most often, their flowers never break the surface of the ground.

The creation is filled with plants and animals which use deception to survive.  The glow‑in‑the‑dark cookie-cutter shark is a master at such deception.

For thousands of years the Bible has taught that there is a link between spiritual health and physical health. When rationalism came along, many sought to deny the spiritual aspect of humans.  For them, the spiritual and the material have nothing to do with each other.

Saliva is an amazing fluid. Besides helping us moisten and digest food, saliva is able to speed healing and fight bacteria, fungi and viruses. Saliva is chemically almost identical to the clear part of your blood.

How small can a living thing be and still be considered alive. Viruses are not considered living things because they cannot reproduce on their own. But now scientists have confirmed the existence of bacterai that are smaller than the largest viruses and yet can reproduce on their own.

The hunted are smart to stay upwind of the hunter. Many predators hunt using scent, at least in part. The same principle works in water.

The Bible teaches that proper authority is respected when it comes from a spirit of servanthood. This pattern seems to extend even to wasps.

When we look at the size of the universe, it sometimes becomes easier to see evolution as credible. But, in truth, the immensity of space is really not so friendly to evolution's claim that the universe, and the earth, are billions of years old.

Human bridegrooms are not the only males who give gifts to their intended. The birds and the flies do it, too.