Tibetan monks at Sera Jey Monastery in Mysore, India, experience using microscopes for the first time. Courtesy of Dan Pierce, CC BY-NC-ND It would be quite appropriate for a college professor to ...

The Biology Department at Bates is a vibrant group of teacher-scholars dedicated to instilling in our students a love of biology and respect for the natural world while working earnestly to develop a ...

From “experimental archaeology” to the mysterious appeal of exploration, the wide-ranging subjects detailed in these titles captivated Smithsonian magazine’s science contributors this year Joe Spring, ...

As I reflect on a year of Quanta biology stories to decide which of the many excellent ones to recommend, I am relying on memory. But what exactly does that mean? “Memory” is a slippery word. It means ...