Biologists are using the kind of animation technology you might see in a multimillion-dollar "Toy Story" movie to show the general public how molecules inside a cell work.

A popular female gorilla thought to be 46 years old has died. Officials at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium in Ohio say Lulu died Monday after suffering seizures that began Saturday. The zoo says the western lowland gorilla had not previously shown signs of illness, except arthritis.

Cosmic Log: 3-D printers are being used in the kitchen to decorate cakes and give foods like masa dough new textures. In the future, will you come home and press print for dinner?

Cosmic Log: The explosive burning of coal seams in Siberia a quarter-billion years ago may have contributed to a mass extinction event that wiped out about 95 percent of marine life and 70 percent of life on land, a new study reports.

As temperatures dip low in the Northern Hemisphere's deep midwinter, many birds are no doubt feasting on the seeds and suet hanging outside many of our homes. More than 40 percent of U.S. households and nearly 50 percent of U.K. households feed birds, according to estimates.

A marauding monkey confined to a zoo after it bit 120 people during a two-month rampage in resort towns of central Japan briefly escaped captivity ? but was captured again on Tuesday.

A tiny one-fingered bug-eating dinosaur is a first for paleontologists. The beast marks the only dinosaur known to date to sport just a single digit on each hand.

A gliding robot is set to cruise over a stretch of Australian coast that has been devastated by the recent flooding. The glider will be on a reconnaissance mission, watching how the ecosystem of Moreton Bay, east of hard-hit Brisband, handles the rush of turbid water from the monumental floods.

Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: Mad scientists such as the interdimensional inventor on the TV series "Fringe" are inspired by the personalities of real-life geniuses.

Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: As if the Maya calendar wasn't enough to worry about, talk of a potential California superstorm or a catastrophic supernova have stoked 2012 paranoia.

Cosmic Log: A green machine that promises to turn sun and seawater into food, fuel, and drinking water will be tried out in the desert near the Red Sea in Jordan. It?s the sort of thing environmentalists might dream about.

Gena, a 14-year-old crocodile at an aquarium in the Ukraine, has been refusing food and acting listless after eating a cell phone dropped by a woman as she tried to photograph the creature. And the phone, in its tummy, keeps ringing.

Migrations can resemble an extreme endurance sport, in some cases taking animals thousands of miles across continents or oceans to feeding, breeding and overwintering grounds. New research shows these feats may offer a surprising benefit: protection from disease.