
Bee Symbiosis Reveals Life's Deepest Partnerships: Q&A
The biologist Nancy Moran has spent a career investigating the surprising nature of symbiosis, a phenomenon in which two species can appear to merge into one
The biologist Nancy Moran has spent a career investigating the surprising nature of symbiosis, a phenomenon in which two species can appear to merge into one
Einstein refused to believe in the inherent unpredictability of the world. Is the subatomic world insane, or just subtle?
Viruses exist as “mutant clouds” of closely related individuals, an insight that is helping researchers predict where disease is likely to spread
Emerging data suggests the seemingly impossible—that mysterious new genes arise from “junk” DNA
A new technique for finding and characterizing microbes has boosted the number of known bacteria by almost 50 percent, revealing a hidden world all around us.
The biologist Deborah Gordon has uncovered how ant colonies search efficiently without central organization, an insight that might improve computer networks
Researchers have begun to catalogue how soil microbes are changing the world
Modern birds appeared to emerge in a snap of evolutionary time. But new research illuminates the long series of evolutionary changes that made the transformation possible
Animals raised under the same conditions are creating a biological map of what makes individuals unique
Researchers are resurrecting ancient proteins to illuminate Earth’s biological dark ages
In his latest book Nobel Prize winner Steven Weinberg explores how science made the modern world, and where it might take us from here
Is dark energy a cosmic chameleon that can fade into its surroundings? A recent test brings the mysterious antigravitational force down-to-earth
Quantum computing pioneer Ivan H. Deutsch explains why analog quantum simulators may beat out general-purpose digital quantum machines for now
Researchers are on the trail of a mysterious connection between number theory, algebra and string theory
The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, which operates at a lower energy than the Large Hadron Collider in Europe, recently fired up for its 15th run to look at quarks and gluons
A quest to unravel the architecture of the double helix is revealing the subtle genetic orchestration of life
A recent solution to the "prisoner's dilemma," a classic game theory scenario, has created new puzzles in evolutionary biology
Enormous databases of medical records have begun to reveal connections among diseases that could provide insights into the biological missteps that make us sick
All life on Earth is made of molecules that twist in the same direction. New research reveals that this may not always have been so
The same mental processes that organize memories may also coordinate how we make decisions
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