Biology

The computational immunologist Purvesh Khatri embraces messy data as a way to capture the messiness of disease. As a result, he’s making elusive genomic discoveries.

New math shows how, contrary to conventional scientific wisdom, conscious beings and other macroscopic entities might have greater influence over the future than do the sum of their microscopic components.

To assess the ocean’s health, ecology’s “rugged individualists” learned to get with the big data program.

Spiders appear to offload cognitive tasks to their webs, making them one of a number of species with a mind that isn’t fully confined within the head.

The proteins that unravel as the temperature starts to rise turn out to be among the most vital.

The new experiments suggest that simple models can explain the behavior of thousands of interacting organisms.

Trash collectors in the cell moonlight at the controls of the genetic machinery.

The computational biologist John Novembre uses our genetic code to rewrite the history of humanity.

Examine evolution over the course of years or centuries, and you’ll find that it progresses much more quickly than it does over geologic time.