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Surprisingly Complex Waves Reveal the Brain's Inner Workings
Unexpected patterns traveling across the human brain may be reorganizing its activity in real time.
9 min · 2,113 words
SynthID Bio: Watermarking methods for synthetic biology
Introducing SynthID Bio Proof of concept for watermarking AIgenerated proteins while preserving biological function. Today, we’re introducing SynthID Bio to bring watermarking technology to synthetic biology.
6 min · 1,276 words
Lab on a Contact Lens Can Measure Stress Through Serotonin
IEEE Spectrum covers a smart contact lens that aims to measure serotonin as a stress biomarker, part of a broader push toward continuous body-chemistry sensing.
4 min · 960 words
Why is the human body so crap except for the liver?
Dynomight asks why the liver regenerates so well while most human tissues heal poorly, surveying biology, evolution, and regenerative medicine.
20 min · 4,636 words
Biology Might Not Be Quantum, but Its Math Is Quantumlike
Elise Cutts for Quanta Magazine explores how biological systems may not rely on quantum physics, yet often obey quantumlike mathematics—interference, contextuality, and what that means for modeling life.
11 min · 2,523 words
Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats
Anthropic’s new life sciences lab reports Claude agents autonomously finding an RT-associated enzyme system (ART) with CRISPR-like RNA-repeat arrays in jumbo-phage DNA—early, still-uncharacterized biology shared to invite follow-on work.
7 min · 1,610 words
How Zambia Approved an HIV Drug in 12 Days
How Zambia’s medicines regulator authorized an HIV drug in 12 days—and what that says about the access gap when medicines sit where the disease is not.
16 min · 3,572 words
Weeping whales: Stillborn humpback whale grieving documented
Researchers document a humpback whale appearing to grieve a stillborn calf, adding rare observational evidence to debates about cetacean emotion and maternal behavior.
2 min · 407 words
The Millennium Problems for Biology
A proposed set of millennium-scale open problems for biology—framed as hard, motivating challenges analogous to the Clay Mathematics Millennium Prize Problems.
7 min · 1,615 words
Do birds have accents? The fascinating regional differences in birdsong
Zoologist Louise Gentle explains how birdsong dialects vary by region—why accents form, how they spread, and what they reveal about learning and culture in birds.
4 min · 910 words
Human brain is two separate organs, Stanford Medicine-led research finds
Stanford Medicine–led research finds the human brain is two distinct organs—the cerebrum and the brainstem—opening new avenues for studying diseases that selectively affect the brainstem.
5 min · 1,248 words
Meet the First New Cat Species Discovered in 100 Years
Jason Bittel reports on a small spotted tiger cat from Bolivia—identified through sanctuary work and genetics—that may signal a broader wave of newly recognized small-cat species.
7 min · 1,553 words
Ctenophores Aren’t Just Beautiful. They’re Biological Wonders.Comb jellies illuminate early nervous systems and bioluminescence
Marlowe Starling reports how comb jellies (ctenophores) help biologists probe the earliest animal nervous systems, membrane chemistry, and bioluminescence—organisms as distant from us as we are from jellyfish.
2 min · 465 words