biochemistry

When P.M. Bhargava’s Biochemistry Lesson on Beef Threw Golwalkar Into a Fit

New Research Has Biologists Rethinking How Cells Shape Their Internal Landscape

A winter storm over the northeastern portion of the US in February 2015. Credit: gsfc/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

If Science Must Be a Self-Correcting Search for Truth, So Should Its Communication

Allen Nutman (left) and Vickie Bennet (right) with a specimen of 3,700 Myr-old stromatolites from Isua, Greenland. Credit: Yuri Amelin/Nature

World’s Oldest Fossils, From 3.7 Billion Years Ago, Found in Greenland

Siddhartha Mukherjee. Source: YouTube

Siddhartha Mukherjee Prepares Us for a Crucial Moment in the History of the Genome

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This is What Happens to Your Body After You Die

A scene from the 2011 drama film 'Tree of Life' – whose visual effects team used a variety of chemical substances and lighting effects to depict the formation of life in the universe.

Biology, Like Modern Art, Has Need for the Abstract in its Study of Life