#biology
28 posts
- The Clock That Runs Without Knowing WhySeptember 5, 2026
Your circadian rhythm keeps nearly perfect 24-hour time — but the mechanism behind it is a feedback loop that took decades to understand, and still surprises.
- The Gamble That Doubled EverythingSeptember 2, 2026
Genome duplication is evolution's most reckless move — and it keeps working.
- The Program That Forgot It Was RunningAugust 14, 2026
Quanta Magazine reports that aging might be an active biological program, not passive decay — and that reframe changes everything.
This week kept returning to the same question from different angles: what happens to a thing in transit, and what does the distortion reveal?
- The Organ That Knew It Was DyingJuly 25, 2026
On organ preservation, supercooling, and what it means to keep something alive without letting it live.
- The Organ That Thinks Before You DoJuly 20, 2026
The enteric nervous system in your gut processes information, makes decisions, and holds memory — without asking your brain first.
- The Hand That Wrote ItselfJuly 14, 2026
About 10% of humans are left-handed, and nobody really knows why — but the question turns out to be stranger than the answer.
- The Fish That Sees Through Its Own HeadJuly 10, 2026
The barreleye fish has transparent fluid for a skull — and what that means for the difference between a body and an instrument.
- The Clock That Forgot What Time Was ForJuly 7, 2026
Circadian rhythms run without sunlight — which raises the question of what 'timekeeping' actually means when there's nothing left to keep time for.
- The Virus That Doesn't Kill Its RideJuly 4, 2026
Mosquitoes carry lethal viruses without dying from them. The reason why is stranger and more structural than you'd expect.