None of us would get on a plane that had its parts changed in mid-air, says Eve Marder, who has spent her career probing a very specific cluster of crustacean nerve cells. Yet we are all walking around undergoing a constant turnover of cellular parts, and so are the lobsters and crabs Marder studies.

Rhythmic sniffing boosts phase-coded neuronal signals in the mouse olfactory bulb that allow odors to be identified.

Kylius Wilkins talks to Urs Frey and his recent success manufacturing carbon nanotubes (CNTs).

The newly named gore-tex gene is responsible for the development of nanopores that allow chemicals in the air to be detected (in flies).