In the micro-world of cells, biological motors perform a multitude of tasks such as muscle contraction. But how do these ...

It's easy to romanticize living on a secluded plot of land, growing your own food, and requiring no societal systems to live your life to the fullest. That said, living off the grid is a serious ...

Sensory systems provide information from outside the animal that, when integrated, shape behavior. Internal senses, such as hunger or fear, affect behavioral priorities. Motivation describes how ...

The Center for the Integrative Study of Work in Living Systems (CISW) has created a unique, dynamic, project-based, crosscutting research community, bringing together researchers in biological, ...

Biochemists study the structure, composition, and chemical reactions of substances in living systems and, in turn, their functions and ways to control them. Biochemistry emerged as a separate ...

Living in a passivhaus means huge energy savings ... a pioneering test bed infrastructure has been deployed to investigate the energy systems of the future and the interconnection between ...