Mar. 24, 2025 — Scientists used light to control how a starfish egg cell jiggles and moves during its earliest stage of development. Their optical system could guide the design of synthetic ...

Synthetic biology is the design and construction of new biological parts, devices, and systems, and the re-design of existing, natural biological systems for useful purposes. Electron shuttle ...

Mar. 24, 2025 — Mathematicians studied the flow of human crowds and developed a way to predict when pedestrian paths will transition from orderly to entangled. Their findings may help inform the ...

China executes 4 dual Canadian citizens despite Ottawa’s plea for clemency China’s embassy in Ottawa has confirmed executions of four dual Canadian-Chinese citizens for drug offences.

Evolutionary biology is a subdiscipline of the biological sciences concerned with the origin of life and the diversification and adaptation of life forms over time.

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