The open nature of the science of classification virtually guarantees fights.

The geometric rules behind fly eyes, honeycombs, and soap bubbles.

Getting control of the molecular mechanisms that drive rapid mutations.

One biologist’s love for science got kickstarted by snakes.

Why life is constrained to be about the sizes we see on Earth.

On a late fall morning, Joseph Alexiou fastened his life jacket and stepped into an eight-foot fiberglass boat floating on the Gowanus Canal. A licensed New York City tour guide, and an amateur historian, Alexiou was preparing to take a passenger on an unsanctioned tour of the waterway he’d spent three years researching for his […]