For more than a century, scientists have wondered why physical structures like blood vessels, neurons, tree branches, and ...

A global catalog shows how creatures across the tree of life balance rigidity with flexibility in remarkably consistent ways ...

By the end of my life, there may be no one left who speaks like my father outside the hollers and the one-horse towns.

Biologists mapping the human body have long assumed that every major kind of microscopic life inside us already had a place ...

This study provides an important assessment of how body size influences the occurrence of macro-organisms in urban areas across the globe. Size in most plants, but only some animal families, was ...

Often when describing patterns, they are placed in one of two categories: organic or geometric. Organic designs are ones ...

NIGHT before last, we were thinking about o. Henry’s touching scene in which Jim gives Della those combs, the ones he has sold his gold watch to buy, and she gives him the watch chain she has ...

It has been seven years since 11 worshippers were killed inside the Tree of Life Synagogue. On Oct. 27, 2018, a gunman went inside and started firing at the three congregations. In 2023, he was ...

Audrey Glickman showed up for morning minyan today — as she has nearly every morning since Oct. 27, 2018, when she survived the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history. Glickman, now 68, was ...

Every family develops its own unique emotional ecosystem, and within that system, children naturally take on different roles to help the family function and to secure their own place within it. While ...