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Tag: biology

Fledging Pains
World + People
Nature

Fledging Pains

Just like among humans, parenting exists in the animal kingdom, too. Whether it constitutes purposeful teaching is still under debate.
Mikołaj Golachowski
Parallel Rainbows
World + People
Nature

Parallel Rainbows

Human visual perception blesses us with only a glimpse of the light spectrum—for many animals, the colour world is a true sight to behold.
Szymon Drobniak
Made for Walking?
World + People
Nature

Made for Walking?

The story of land vertebrates begins around four hundred million years ago. But was the evolution of fins and then legs really such a great idea?
Mikołaj Golachowski
The Discreet Movements of the Sunflower
World + People
Nature

The Discreet Movements of the Sunflower

Plants – fixed to the earth by their roots – move in an entirely different way to humans and animals. What biological mechanisms enable their movement?
Marcin Zych
We Could All Use an Octopus Teacher
World + People
Nature

We Could All Use an Octopus Teacher

After the 2020 Netflix documentary "My Octopus Teacher" gained international acclaim, a biologist writes about just how clever cephalopods really are.
Mikołaj Golachowski
Baby Beasts
World + People
Science

Baby Beasts

From post-natal death to hatching out of a mother’s back, the modes of reproduction in the animal world are far more varied than that of humans.
Mikołaj Golachowski
Testing the Waters
Humor + Variety
Variety

Testing the Waters

Our biologist-reporter tunes in to an interview with a particle of water, who explains everything we could wish to know about its structure and properties.
Tomasz Sitarz
The Unbearable Fluidity of Being
World + People
Nature

The Unbearable Fluidity of Being

A trip to the forest gives us the chance to reflect on nature – in all its wet, blooming, perfumed springtime glory.
Szymon Drobniak
Little Things That Matter
World + People
Nature

Little Things That Matter

Plankton usually take on tiny forms and exist in beautiful variety. They are also a key part of the ocean’s ecology – and are under threat from the climate crisis.
Mikołaj Golachowski
Hues of Our Own
World + People
Science

Hues of Our Own

Each of us lives in our own multi-coloured universe. And there’s scientific proof of it.
Szymon Drobniak