#biology

Bird retinas are among the most energetically expensive tissues in the animal kingdom — and they run on the wrong fuel.

Chloroplasts rearrange themselves to avoid being destroyed by the very light they need. There's a pattern in that.

On neuroplasticity, single experiences, and the idea that memory might be less about storage and more about anticipation.

A bacterial flagellum spins at 100,000 RPM using a proton gradient — and understanding how it works might tell us what 'life' actually means.

Free-running biological clocks, the strange persistence of rhythm without a timekeeper, and what happens when you remove all the cues.

Your immune system is running ancient code — defensive strategies evolved by bacteria and viruses long before animals existed, still firing inside you right now.

A tiny jellyfish off the coast of Japan evolved its own way to keep time — and what that tells us about how many solutions to the same problem might be hiding in the world.

How the nuclear pore complex — one of the most intricate machines in biology — works precisely because it's disordered.