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If you’re a baby bird, your species has two options: either do a lot of your maturing in the safe, warm environment of your egg and be born more or less ready to survive, or start out totally helpless and play catch-up by developing quickly after hatching.

In 2010, a controversial article published in Nature violently criticized the last 40 years of developments in evolutionary biology, triggering an ongoing war within the scientific community. This article explains the essence of the controversy!

For the brain to function correctly, the cells of the central nervous system must be able to communicate among themselves.

The structure of a muscle is so complex that it resembles a crystal. If its organization is disturbed, the muscle can no longer function. This is the principle underlying myofibrillar myopathy, the subject of Elisabeth Charrier's PhD research.

By analyzing ancient DNA, population genetics makes it possible to follow the migrations of peoples throughout history. A study published in February in PLOS Genetics addressed the case of the peoples of northwest Russia.

Web site of Jay Matternes, Artist naturalist.

Cancer cells live forever; can we ever hope to possess that power?

After showing the world the unconventional mating and scandalous sex lives of animals in her Webby-award winning, short film series GREEN PORNO, Isabella Rossellini sets her provocative lens on creatures’ rites of passage into motherhood in her latest series MAMMAS.

BigBrain is the name of a new resource available to scientists: a 3D map of the brain showing its anatomy in higher resolution and greater detail than ever before--as seen in this remarkable video. Read on to learn how this product of the Human Brain Project was created.

Researchers at MIT have developed an approach that allows them to create physical sample of a multiscale computer model of a synthetic material. The approach allows creation of complex hierarchical patterns such as bones.