A new species of copepod crustacean has been discovered in the Roadside Cave in Bermuda, marking the first find of its genus in the country. The species is the only member of the Tetragoniceps genus to be found living in caves, and the team believes it could represent an ancient, early-diverging member of its evolutionary lineage. The researchers recommend formal protection of the cave to help preserve the unique fauna found within.

A team of researchers led by Thomas Richards at the University of Oxford, UK, studied the properties of membranes to understand how these cellular structures influenced the chemistry of life on earth as it began. The researchers published their findings on May 20^th in the open-access journal PLOS Biology.

Our ability to store information about familiar objects depends on the connection between visual and language processing regions in the brain, according to a study published May 20^th in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by Bo Liu from Beijing Normal University, China, and colleagues.

Salk Professor Terrence Sejnowski has been elected to the Royal Society and the American Philosophical Society in recognition of his outstanding leadership and extraordinary achievement in computational neuroscience.

After invasive American bullfrogs "croak," native turtles return to Yosemite, finds a UC Davis study.

The findings, published recently in Cell Reports Medicine, offer new clues to why some viral infections appear to trigger autoimmune disease.