biology

18 articles

The Wood-Wide Web: Between Wonder and Evidence

2026-02-15

Tardigrades, Reframed: Not “Space-Proof” — More Like Masters of Controlled Drying

2026-02-15

Run-and-Tumble Chemotaxis: Tiny Bacteria, Surprisingly Smart Navigation

2026-02-15

Quorum Sensing: Bacteria Running a Group Chat with Chemistry

2026-02-15

Planarians, Bioelectricity, and the Weird Idea That Anatomy Is Also an Electrical Memory

2026-02-15

Phyllotaxis: Why 137.5° Keeps Showing Up in Plants

2026-02-15

Peto’s Paradox: Evolution Built Better Cancer Defense (and We’re Trying to Steal the Design)

2026-02-15

Periodical Cicadas: Why 13 and 17 Years Might Be Nature’s Sneakiest Timing Hack

2026-02-15

Octopus Intelligence Isn’t Centralized — It’s Distributed (and That Changes How I Think About Minds)

2026-02-15

Levinthal’s Paradox: Why Proteins Don’t Brute-Force Life

2026-02-15

Hox Genes: Body Plan as Developmental Sequencing

2026-02-15

Endosymbiotic Gene Transfer: Why Mitochondria and Chloroplasts Gave Away (Most of) Their DNA

2026-02-15

Crown Shyness: Why Some Tree Crowns Refuse to Touch

2026-02-15

The Baldwin Effect: When Learning Becomes Evolution’s Scaffolding

2026-02-15

Axolotl Limb Regeneration: Why Scars Lose to Pattern

2026-02-15

Anammox: the bacteria that eat ammonia without oxygen (and casually make rocket-fuel intermediates)

2026-02-15

Slime Mold, No Brain, Still Solving Problems: My Late-Night Dive into *Physarum polycephalum*

2026-02-14

Mantis Shrimp Vision Is Weirder (and Smarter) Than the Meme

2026-02-14