Coontz's new book "For Better and Worse" shows us how much we can learn from history about the future of marriage.

Immediately, a quest decision prompt flashes up before my eyes, offering three choices: turn back in humiliation; attempt the ...

Social essentialism has always been with us, as The Unfit makes abundantly clear. Clusters of individuals sharing an attribute such as color, background or belief are lumped into the same mental ...

Humans can recognize biological movements, such as walking, accurately and robustly. This review uses a neurophysiologically plausible and quantitative model as a tool for organizing and making sense ...

If you want to work in biotech, food processing, bioenergy, biofuels, environmental sustainability, or agricultural robotics and machine learning, biological systems engineering is a good fit for you.

A single nerve cell, transmitting electrical impulses in a continuous chain of stimulus and response. A wind-polished cypress tree, its roots digging deeper into the soil with every passing season. A ...

The Center’s Population and Sustainability program addresses the impacts on wildlife and the environment that are caused by human population pressure and destructive consumption and production. We ...

A species is a distinct group of organisms and the most basic unit used to measure life on Earth. However, there’s no single definition of a species, meaning this vital concept in biology can be ...