Jordana Cepelewicz

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

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

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.

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

Biologists have demonstrated for the first time that a controversial genetic engineering technology works, with caveats, in mammals.

Emerging evidence suggests that the brain encodes abstract knowledge in the same way that it represents positions in space, which hints at a more universal theory of cognition.

As it becomes clear that the body’s cells have more diverse regenerative capabilities than expected, experts have had to reconsider their approach to stem cell research.

Some researchers are using a complexity framework thought to be purely theoretical to understand evolutionary dynamics in biological and computational systems.