If you’ve ever watched a flapping insect or hummingbird hover in place – often while engaged in other activities such as ...

Think of tissues as mosh pits of cells. The cells may not be able to crowd surf, but they can jam. Specifically, cells can undergo a jamming transition, a physical role change that was previously ...

A special biological property that is not well known or understood seems to enable cellular structures to store energy at their surfaces and outer edges; this characteristic could be the key to ...

A long-standing basic question in biology relates to how life satisfies the fundamental constraints put on it by physics and chemistry. Darwin's warm pond hypothesis for the origin of primordial cells ...

While the engineering behind modern aircraft is incredibly complicated, the basic concepts behind getting airborne is simpler than you might think. “So the fundamentals, the physics of flight, deal ...

A new study by physicists and neuroscientists from the University of Chicago, Harvard and Yale describes how connectivity among neurons comes about through general principles of networking and ...