Only a handful of molecules and mechanisms can generate such a huge diversity of forms and complexity in multicellular organisms. Recently, researchers investigated how this is possible using a simple ...

Picture yourself at a busy pedestrian crossing. When the light is red, everyone waits—until one person starts to cross. Soon, others follow, and eventually everyone follows the crowd and crosses.

Zebras and tigers have stripes, cheetahs and leopards have spots, and the ocellated lizard (Timon lepidus) boasts a labyrinthine pattern of black-and-green chains of scales. Now researchers from the ...

For most people, swallowing is second nature, but how does it occur, and why do some people have difficulty with it?

John H. Porter and James L. Dooley, Jr. Attempts to fit simple mathematical models of animal movement to observed distributions of movements have been extremely successful. However, the extent to ...

This is the seventh in a series of newsletters that have been discussing a seldom-mentioned IT discipline – Application Performance Engineering (APE). In this newsletter we will discuss the limits of ...

The mathematical model is a computer simulation that shows how muscles in the throat and esophagus move when we swallow.

By extending a proof of a physically important behavior in one-dimensional quantum spin systems to higher dimensions, a RIKEN ...