Physics and poetry both distil complexity into clarity. Learn how poetic structure can shape and express scientific ideas.

As a poet myself now, that fascination with the written word remains, although it has evolved from limericks to sonnets and free-verse love poems as well. I often hear from peers and students that ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A rare manuscript copy of Shakespeare's Sonnet 116 was discovered in a 17th-century poetry collection among Elias Ashmole's papers. This version, adapted as a ...

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “I have slept in many places, for years on mattresses that entered,” by Diane Seuss, and his own poem “This Is a Test of the Federal Emergency ...

Instead of defaulting to the notifications on my phone, poetry has inspired me to begin the day in a different way. By Charley Locke Most mornings, as soon as I wake up, I feel the pull of my phone.

He didn’t read book reviews—or so he claimed—and he didn’t write them, preferring instead to let his poems find their natural audience, which turned out to be a wide one. He mocked ...

Plate tectonics is geology’s Theory of Everything. The realisation in the 1960s that Earth’s crust is made of fragments called plates—and that these plates can grow, shrink and move around ...

SPO11-mediated DNA cleavage therefore represents a high-stakes gamble for a cell: double-strand breaks (DSBs) are a potentially catastrophic type of genome damage if not properly repaired ...

Such observations might seem ho-hum today, but they were unprecedented at the time. Robert Hooke had coined the word “cell”—short for cellula, or “small compartment” in Latin—in the mid-17th century, ...

The activities at the Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology (MTC) are focused on research and teaching in the subjects of infection biology, cell and tumor biology and immunology. The ...

coli infections and sends letters to other stem cell companies reminding them to follow the rules. How a dinner-table conversation between two biologists led to the formulation of the theory that ...