How a UChicago biochemist gained fame—and lost credibility—when he developed a midlife obsession with legendary creatures.

Why does biodiversity wax near the equator and wane approaching Earth’s poles?

How Margaret Gardel accidentally became a biophysicist.

In three weeks, there are just over 500 hours. The students in the Marine Biological Laboratory’s September intensive courses tried to use them all.

Few processes are as fundamental to life as that of one cell dividing into two.

The discovery of two species suggests greater variety of the earliest mammaliaforms.