The insect-inspired dance by choreographer Paul Taylor strikes the perfect balance between six-legged realism and artistic fancy.
Covering the life sciences inside and out
The insect-inspired dance by choreographer Paul Taylor strikes the perfect balance between six-legged realism and artistic fancy.
New studies of tadpole shrimp and other organisms show that the term “living fossil” is inaccurate and misleading.
A Portuguese professor explores the poisons and potions of opera.
Researchers show that a bacterium’s self-sacrifice can benefit its community, even when the members are not strongly related.
Artist Mara G. Haseltine unveils her latest exhibition of science-inspired sculpture, a melancholy ode to marine plankton set to the music of Puccini.
Transcriptome studies reveal new insights about unusual animals whose genomes have not been sequenced.
A red alga appears to have adapted to extremely hot, acidic environments by collecting genes from bacteria and archaea.
If African-American researchers are ever to gain equal opportunities in science, even subtle cases of differential treatment must be stamped out.
Scientist? Filmmaker? Alexis Gambis welcomes both labels.
Physicists and biologists are working together to understand cooperation at all levels of life, from the cohesion of molecules to interspecies interactions.