Curious adults and science-wary readers who want wonder tied to evidence, and a 1980 case that scientific literacy and species-level restraint still matter.

A prominent protein on most human cells may be key to unlocking the code that makes humans susceptible to pathogenic bacteria and viruses, including human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), according to a ...

The bite of a female mosquito is the critical point of pathogen transmission, yet the fine-scale biting dynamics on human skin remain unknown. Here, we combine high-speed videography, ...

Robot swarms classify arena shapes by estimating a global spectral signature from information exchanged between robots.

Paired appendages—the pectoral and pelvic fins of fishes and the forelimbs and hindlimbs of tetrapods—were a major innovation ...

I now fully understand why Shin-ichi Fukuoka recommends this book.Yasuko Ishikawa's 'Rikyu's Mystery, a Cipher from Italy' ...

What Bruner calls “braking,” the Yale neuroscientist Amy Arnsten calls “regulation”—specifically, calcium regulation, which ...

A new transformer model called LitGene learns gene function by reading the scientific literature and aligning it with Gene ...

For those who want to organize formats like FASTQ, SAM, and GO, as well as calculations in life sciences and information ...

A new review synthesizes genetic and epigenetic evidence showing that endurance performance is a polygenic, dynamically ...

Larger breeds like Great Danes seem to accumulate changes to chemical tags on their DNA more quickly than tinier breeds, such ...

Fondation Jérôme Lejeune via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 3.0). On May 7, 1974, less than 500 days after the U.S. Supreme Court handed ...