Biology

Unexpected patterns traveling across the human brain may be reorganizing its activity in real time.

Scientists have a history of trying — and failing — to link biology and quantum mechanics. The real connection between them may be in the math.

Half of our genome is made of transposons — snips of DNA that can move and copy themselves. But they’re more than parasites or genetic junk.

The mystery of the flipping foraminifera may conceal a rarely observed evolutionary process playing out across the planet.

By doubling their entire genome, organisms can evolve extremely rapidly — or they can lose it all. New studies reveal how to survive the high-risk, high-reward evolutionary event.

An updated view of categorization reflects the modern understanding that the nervous system is more of a prediction engine than a filing cabinet.

By deciphering the molecular signatures of millions of mouse cells, Junyue Cao has found that aging is not haphazard wear and tear but rather a “remodeling of the cell society.”

Neuroscientist Ishmail Abdus-Saboor discusses efforts to understand how skin contact can be painful or pleasurable, and what touch-obsessed naked mole rats might teach us about human social behavior.

New research is helping biologists understand how an overlooked aspect of coral physiology may affect their fate under climate change.