Brood Parasitism: Nature’s Surprising Parenting Strategy Cover Image: (Source) Disney’s Tarzan and The Jungle Book have one thing in common: abandoned children being raised by wild animals. Tarzan grew up alongside apes and Mowgli with... Read More
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From Data to Babies: AI is Making IVF Stronger (Illustration by Catherine Xu) Introduction Facilitating a pregnancy in a laboratory was one of the most impactful medical breakthroughs of the 20th century. The remarkable discovery... Read More
Criminal Minds: The Neurological Blueprint of Psychopaths Image Source: Song Nguyen Introduction Everyone has unique thoughts, perceptions, and mental processing techniques, but for some, the neural pathways that code for mental processing are not as... Read More
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Transmitted by female biting anopheles mosquitoes carrying the plasmodium parasite,[1] malaria thrives in the heat. It kills over 600,000 people annually, and more than half of all malaria deaths occur in just four sub-Saharan African... Read More
Introduction When one is sick, the comforting mentality tends to be: “When I get better…” The focus shifts to improvement—the cough will abate, the fever will break, and eventually, the illness will become a... Read More
How to Taste With Your Arms: Chemotactile Receptors, from Biophysics to Evolution A shrimp pounding against the wall of its tank, as if it knows what is to come. In the opposite corner: an octopus,... Read More
Introduction Kuru, or the laughing disease, was first discovered in the Fore people native to New Guinea. The Fore people upheld a tradition of funerary cannibalism, in which family members would eat the bodies of... Read More
Evolution drives biological change and has been the force to bring along numerous organismic additions since the origin of life. Thriving on evolution and growth, cancer is a disease which negatively impacts humans. Like all... Read More
Your food reserves are running low; you are beginning to doubt you will be able to feed your family in the upcoming week. Resources have been scarce for a while, but it became especially difficult... Read More