In most vertebrates, skin appendages such as hair, feathers, or scales originate from placodes—small, specialized skin regions whose spatial organization is controlled by well-conserved genetic ...

Two years ago, physicists at the University of Chicago were greeted with fireworks—atoms shooting out in jets—when they discovered a new form of quantum behavior. But the patterns underlying the ...

Every several years, small groups of hatchling North Pacific loggerhead turtles, an endangered species, embark on years-long journeys spanning thousands of miles from Japan to the West Coast of North ...