Entomologist and evolutionary biologist Cody Cardenas explains the function of the abdominal division of beetles and how this structure, and many others, are used by beetles and other insects to communicate with other members of their own species.
Some have considered pleasure to be a sensation, however, science today considers only nine senses. Why doesn’t science include pleasure as the tenth sense?
The psychologist and neuroscientist Kent Berridge has the answer.
Hiding something from others can make our lives a little easier, but it comes with a weird feeling sometimes.
The American painter Joseph Hopkins (aka POH, Seattle, 1993) has portrayed that sentiment in Mellow Cotton, a collection of 15 pieces that leaves no one indifferent.
Canadian illustrator Christian Robert de Massy’s first solo exhibition, titled Phorésie, symboise de l’animalerie humaine, opens today at Whisbone Art Gallery in Montreal.
De Massy is known for recreating heterotopic scenarios where every association is valid, no matter how impossible it may seem. Scenarios that offer the viewer fantastic worlds as beautiful as they are…
We shared World Bee Day with the neurobiologist Javier Navas who, for several years, has been combining his scientific career in a hospital in Madrid with his passion for honeybees and apiculture.
MIYAYA, by artist Carla García, is a craft project that has captured the attention of major fashion and design magazines. It offers a variety of ingenious functional ceramic pieces that look like something out of a modern art gallery.
Italian coffee pots, papier-mâché bowls, cans of anchovies, or the typical takeaway Tupperware are some of…
Daniela Vendramin is one of the intradermal pigment artists who has transformed the tattoo industry. Vendramin has created her own style, fusing rigorous and methodical industrial illustration with the light textures of the plant world, a successful mix that has managed to convince even the most skeptical.
What variety of organisms can we find inhabiting our skin? Jacobo Castellano, sculptor
Answer by Aayushi Uberoi:
The skin is the body's first line of defense; it protects us against environmental stresses, toxins, and disease-causing microbes.
The skin represents a complex ecosystem composed of almost 1.8 m2 of diverse habitats, each with its…
Today, cell cultures are considered essential tools in biomedical research and regenerative medicine. They allow us to create disease models or biological systems for drug screening more quickly and economically than traditional animal models. However, it has taken more than a century for scientists to fine-tune cell culture techniques in order to obtain physiologically relevant…
