Plants can move rapidly without muscles, as seen in the Venus flytrap’s snapping lobes—a long-standing puzzle in plant biomechanics. Trap closure involves an elastic instability, but the active mechan...

Capitalizing on a mechanoelectrical mechanism that arises from the spines’ structure could yield useful sensors for marine environmental monitoring and other applications.

Not everything in biology evolved for a purpose.

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Multicellular organisms utilize epithelial folding to achieve remarkable three-dimensional forms. During embryonic development, stereotypical epith...

Experiments on a sphere settling towards a boundary in a viscous liquid under the influence of a magnetic force - Volume 1024

An annual symposium in Friday Harbor explores what happens when poetry and science coalesce.

We're thrilled to bring you this episode of The Microscopists with an absolute force in accessible science and microscopy innovation—Manu Prakash of Stanford University.Manu shares the origin of th...

Biomineralization is ubiquitous in both unicellular and multicellular living systems [[1][1], [2][2]] and has remained elusive due to a limited understanding of physicochemical and biomolecular proces...