Biology

During development, cells seem to decode their fate through optimal information processing, which could hint at a more general principle of life.

To make headway on the mystery of consciousness, some researchers are trying a rigorous new way to test competing theories.

Jennifer Doudna, one of CRISPR’s primary innovators, stays optimistic about how the gene-editing tool will continue to empower basic biological understanding.

As researchers delve deeper into the behavior of decentralized collective systems, they’re beginning to question some of their initial assumptions.

Researchers hope that the genes of a glowing squid can illuminate how animals evolved organs for beneficial bacteria.

The brain can’t directly encode the passage of time, but recent work hints at a workaround for putting timestamps on memories of events.

With the help of deep learning techniques, paleoanthropologists find evidence of long-lost branches on the human family tree.

If highly repetitive gene-regulating sequences in DNA are easily lost, that may explain why some adaptations evolve quickly and repeatedly.

Among these cave insects, the females evolved to have penises — twice. The reasons challenge common assumptions about sex.