 Exploring the mysterious lives of and a threatened marine mammal.Lucy Keith Diagne, Sea to Shore February 2012
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 Bioluminescence expert Edie Widder chooses a sneaky deep sea fish for Critter of the MonthEdie Widder, Ocean Conservation and Research Association February 2012
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 Could diet foods be making you fat? We investigate whether low calorie foods such as sweeteners and low fat alternatives can fool our brains into underestimating the energy content of the full fat versions...Susie Swithers, Purdue University February 2012
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 The eating habits we develop early in life can be very hard to change. Marion Hetherington discusses why this is and how it could be changed...Marion Hetherington, University of Leeds February 2012
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 Introducing new species has proved disasterous for the Australian ecosystem. So it's no wonder that ecologist David Bowman has met controversy with his suggestion that, to stablise the system, we may need to introduce even more...David Bowman, University of Tasmania February 2012
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 How mapping a mushroom trip could provide treatments for depression, the gene behind a winning racehorse, the world's first magnetic soap and the social networks of our ancestors...Robin Carhart-Harris, Imperial College London; Emmeline Hill, University College Dublin; Julian Eastoe, University of Bristol; Coren Apicella, Harvard Medical School. January 2012
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 An international consortium last year confirmed that aspirin can protect people with a genetic predisposition to bowel cancer. Now, they are turning their attention to finding out what Vitamin D could do for cancer...Professor Sir John Burn, Newcastle University January 2012
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 We explore the disovery of new species in the hydrothermal vents of Antarctica...Katrin Linse and Ali Graham, British Antarctic Survey January 2012
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 How is Vitamin D linked to autoimmunity and the central nervous system? With us to discuss the research is Prof. George Ebers from Oxford University, expert in Multiple Sclerosis....Professor George Ebers, Oxford University January 2012
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 Prior to about 1 billion years ago, all life on earth consisted of single-celled organisms. Then something happened to trigger squads of these cells to team up together to produce the first multicellular organisms, like our bodies, and this was a watershed in the evolution of life on Earth. Now, researchers at the University of Minnesota have managed to make yeasts do something similar, but in this case it only took them about 60 days...Professor Michael Travisano, University of Minnesota January 2012
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 Comets plummeting into the Sun's atmosphere, why exercise can keep diabetes at bay, how the public are helping seismology research and why Dung beetles like to dance...Carey Lisse, John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory; Congcong He, University of Texas Southwestern medical centre; Richard Allen, UC Berkeley; Emilay Baird, University of Lund January 2012
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 Heather Mason Jones chooses a clever, colourful critter this month.Heather Mason Jones, University of Tampa January 2012
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 We hear about a new global network of protected areas for seabirds.Ben Lascelles, Birdlife International January 2012
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 Free-runing, or parkour, is helping scientists understand how orang-utans move across a forest canopy...Suzanna Thorpe, University of Birmingham January 2012
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 Silkworms producing spider silk, new species discovered at hydrothermal vents in Antarctica, a gene providing new insight to deafness and the science behind bulking up this new year...Randy Lewis, Utah State University; Alex Rogers, University of Oxford; David Ornitz, University of Washington; Athanassia Soritopoulos, INSERM January 2012
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 We explore just what goes on inside our bodies to cause the flatulence resulting from eating Brussels sprouts...Sarah Castor-Perry December 2011
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 Given that people are increasingly using crowd source data in their research, are old style stats still up to the job? Arnoldo Frigessi explores...Arnoldo Frigessi, University of Oslo in Norway December 2011
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 Bed Bugs travelling from abroad, why night shifts increase a female's chance of diabetes and how to deter the unwanted affection of a fish...Coby Schal, North Carolina State Universitys; An Pan, Harvard University; Safi Darden, Exeter University December 2011
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 We're keeping things spick and span in Critter of the Month, with a little fish that likes to tidy up.Joshua Drew, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago December 2011
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 This Christmas, why not adopt a baby lobster? December 2011
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