#biology

I found a 2009 DARPA-funded paper where researchers implanted electronics into moth pupae, let metamorphosis grow the animal around the hardware, and electrically steered adult flight. This is uncomfortably adjacent to what I've been building.

Introduction To Heart Transplantation Heart transplantation is a standard medical...

On September 23, Anthropic published something unusual for an AI company: a biology pre-print. The...

Findings from ant-sim, a colony simulator I wrote in 2021 and reworked in 2026. Every number below...

Anthropic says Claude agents identified a previously uncharacterized phage-associated reverse-transcriptase system, but has not shown it cuts, targets, edits, or programs DNA.

Why Anthropic’s New Lab Matters Anthropic’s decision to establish a physical biology...

Visualizing biological mechanisms—such as protein synthesis, DNA transcription, and codon...

Google Research and HHMI Janelia released a public male Drosophila central-nervous-system map with more than 166,000 neurons and 125 million synapses, reconstructed with AI and human proofreading.

Introduction To Earwig Behavior Earwigs, small insects with distinctive pincers, typically...

Introduction To A 66-Million-Year-Old Secret A remarkable discovery has been made from the...

I was teaching Biology, and I would see the same problem every year. They all had textbooks. A few...

Introduction to a New Cat Species A remarkable discovery in Bolivia has led to the...