🦠 Biology

• 💎Nine Ways to Make a Diamond

  Explore how minerals shape life on Earth and beyond in our latest study, revealing nine unique ways to create a diamond.

• 💀Dying Fast and Slow

  Explore the borders of life and death as scientists debate the intricate dance of dying cells at a groundbreaking NIH workshop.

• 🐦The Surprising Importance of Bird Nest Architecture

  Explore how birds' nest designs reveal an evolutionary arms race driven by the cunning strategies of brood parasites like cuckoos.

• 🧬What Is Epigenetics?

  How epigenetics shapes our biology beyond DNA, influencing traits across generations through mechanisms like DNA methylation.

• 🧬Extended Evolutionary Synthesis

  Evolution has evolved since Darwin, and an emerging new synthesis expands our understanding of what it is and how it functions.

• 🌀What Is Emergence?

  Explore the fascinating concept of emergence, where simple elements unfold into complex systems, from galaxies to societies.

• 🎯What Is Fine Tuning?

  Explore the enigmatic concept of fine tuning, where the universe's precise constants intriguingly align to support life, sparking debates across science and philosophy.

• 🤝The Evolution of Cooperation

  Explaining the evolution of cooperation — one of life’s most common, complex, and paradoxical phenomena

• 🔬Is One of Biology’s Perennial Themes Ready For a Fresh Look? Alan Love on the Science of Purpose.

  University of Minnesota philosopher Alan Love studies the interplay between philosophy and biology.

• 🕰️Quantum biology and the arrow of time

  Jellyfish and migratory birds may help physicists understand the mysterious shift from quantum to classical mechanics

• 🔬A Massive New Grant Will Explore the Health Effects of Religion and Spirituality

  For 30 Years This Gold-Standard Study Has Generated Insights on Human Health

• 🀄Cross-Training to Understand Confucian Culture

  A multidisciplinary investigation of ‘How China Became Chinese.’

• 🔍collaborative-inquiries-in-christian-theological-anthropology

  A new project will foster interdisciplinary work — informed by both science and theology — on what it means to be human

• 📚Bringing the EES to the Classroom

  There’s more to inheritance than genes, and more to adaptation than selection

• 🔬Five Questions with Betül Kaçar

  Join Betül Kaçar as she explores the frontier of astrobiology and ancient DNA, shedding light on life’s cosmic journey and evolutionary constraints.

• 🌌Chance, Necessity, and the Origins of Life

  Minerals may offer a key to understanding how common life is in the universe

• 🌌Consolidation of Fine-Tuning

  Building a field guide to ‘fine tuning’ across disciplines.

• 🧬Molecular insights into historical constraints on evolution

  Replaying evolution’s early days in a lab — with resurrected, billion-year-old genes

• 🧪Chemistry to Life

  Harnessing the power of paradox to unravel how the first forms of life may have developed.

• 🔬How do novel cell types arise in evolution?

  A new theory offers insight into an evolutionary puzzle

• 🌐Creating a Society for the Study of Cultural Evolution

  Forming connections and framing grand questions on the links between evolutionary inheritance and cultural change

• 🚀What was the first animal in space?

  Discover how fruit flies became the first astronauts, bravely soaring into space in 1947 to unlock secrets of cosmic rays.

• 📚The joys and perils of overlapping reading

  Reflecting on the complexities of reading and the intertwining influences of contrasting narratives, the author shares a personal struggle with parallel reading of profound figures.

• 📚Love and language

  Elif Batuman reflects on her journey through love, literature, and the unexpected choices we make.

• 🔥Re-kindling, by Shawn Smith

  Artistic exploration through the lens of low-resolution imagery is at the heart of Shawn Smith's work, as seen in his piece "Re-kindling."

• 🌈Ecstatically between the pillows and the books

  In this excerpt from David Foster Wallace's _The Pale King_, the author explores the intertwining of childhood ecstasy and maternal love through evocative imagery and a sense of magic in the everyday.

• 🦠HIV, by Luke Jerram

  Luke Jerram's striking glass sculptures of viruses echo the beauty and menace of microscopic life forms, evoking powerful emotions in viewers.

• 🐔Chicken à la Queens

  A halal poultry store in Queens creates unexpected connections among diverse communities.

• 🎨The out-of-left-field kind of science

  Robert Tjian reflects on the importance of passion-driven science over large-scale projects in fostering transformative discoveries.

• 🦗Eating grasshoppers has gotten so commercial

  Here's an intriguing look at the changing dynamics of the Ugandan grasshopper harvest and its cultural significance.

• 🌱The dignity of plants

  An exploration of the ethical considerations surrounding genetic modification and the dignity of plants in Switzerland.

• 🌐Doing science in the open

  Barry Canton advocates for transparency in science by sharing his research openly online, challenging traditional academic norms.

• 📚“Biology

  I find it fascinating to think about the hidden images and stories within the books on my shelves, much like Brian Dettmer's artwork.

• 🦋Mix CD | Entomology

  A unique mix designed for the curious mind of an evolutionary biologist, featuring music that resonates with the vibrant world of insects.