Kat Arney

The tiny fruit fly has been beloved by developmental biologists for more than a century. Turing patterns may yet explain its shape.

Biology and mathematics—the practical and the theoretical—can be surprisingly uneasy bedfellows, but their union could help uncover the mysteries of life.

Where do a zebra’s stripes, a leopard’s spots, and our fingers come from? The key was found years ago—by the man who cracked the Enigma code.