The University of Alabama at Birmingham

The life cycle of metabolism

Metabolism is more than burning calories. UAB experts explain how metabolism develops from before birth through older ...

‘The Last of Us’ on Eight Legs

A newly discovered species of spider in the Ecuadorean Amazon mimics a pathogen, known as a zombie fungus, to protect itself.
Smithsonian Magazine

These Sea Slugs Can ‘Eat’ Sunlight—but They’re No Astrophage. Here’s How the ‘Project Hail Mary’ Antagonist Has a Real-Life Analogue in Earth’s Oceans

By snatching chloroplasts from algae, animals called sacoglossans produce their own energy through photosynthesis ...

How these secretive traditional circumcision rites are responsible for dozens of deaths

At least 48 boys and young men died during the latest round of initiation ceremonies in South Africa, which involve the ...