Growing tissues can crack, break, and dissociate to form structures that can later withstand immense forces.

Neurons placed inside engineered living bodies built from frog cells self-organize, become active, and reshape movement ...

In early embryos, the first cell divisions must be extremely rapid and precisely controlled to ensure successful development. This balance is found to arise from a tight coupling between the clock ...

Early in pregnancy, something surprising happens. Every human embryo develops a tail. It is not symbolic or imagined. A real extension forms at the base of the spine, complete with vertebrae. Later, ...

Insights from theoretical physics are helping scientists understand how living cells process information and use it to self-organise Researchers ...

At multiple archaeological sites across southern Africa, researchers have uncovered hundreds of unusual fragments of ostrich ...

Discover how an ancient gene influences the sex of ant, bee, and wasp embryos, impacting conservation and breeding practices.

Drosophila mojavensis, and propose that sleep at one stage of an animal's life might anticipate needs at a future stage. The results fit well with this model, but are correlative in nature. The work ...

A study said that Neanderthal men and human women were particularly inclined to mate, a sexual habit that offers insight into the evolution of the modern human genome.