Research Articles
The Ambivalent Helix: Nature's Favorite Shape Has a Left-Handed Secret
Explore the fascinating world of helical ambivalence in biology, from DNA and proteins to cellular structures and evolutionary implications.
The Universal Song: What Music Reveals About Being Human
Exploring the scientific evidence that music is a universal human trait with deep biological foundations across all cultures.
Transhumanism: A Function of Hybrid Nanomaterials?
Exploring how hybrid nanomaterials are bridging the gap between human and machine, enabling the transhumanist vision of human enhancement.
Why Evolution Holds the Key to Our Health: Unraveling the Mystery of Modern Diseases
Exploring how evolutionary medicine explains modern health disparities through concepts like evolutionary mismatch and genetic trade-offs.
Deep Time: The Astonishing Scale of Earth's History and Why It Matters Today
Explore the concept of deep time, its discovery, modern scientific applications, and profound moral implications for our planetary future.
The First Spark: Unraveling the Origin of Cellular Life and the Language of Biology
Explore the fascinating journey from prebiotic chemistry to the first cellular life and the emergence of biological information systems through biosemiotics.
The Ultimate Blueprint: The Evolutionary Arms Race of Making Babies
Explore the fascinating evolutionary strategies behind reproduction and development, from asexual cloning to the genetic tango of sexual reproduction.
Life in NASA and the Rest of the Universe: New Scientific Opportunities
Explore NASA's groundbreaking research on life in space, from brain organoid experiments to the search for extraterrestrial life on Mars and exoplanets.
The Silent Dialogue: How Lab Creatures Are Shaping Biology
Explore how model organisms in laboratories are revolutionizing our understanding of biology, from Mendel's peas to modern genetic research.
The Swarm's Secret: How Creatures Great and Small Make Group Decisions
Explore the fascinating world of collective intelligence in biological communities and discover how simple rules create complex group behaviors.