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Many animals practice what looks like self-medication. A new report suggests that chimps tend wounds with insects, often treating each other.
"Carpe diem" was only one part of Horace's poem Odes 1.11.
Is it like a tiny ball — or what?
Though quantum mechanics is an incredibly successful theory, nobody knows what it means. Scientists now must confront its philosophical implications.
For J.R.R. Tolkien, the single most important element of a fairy tale was the dramatic reversal of misfortune in the story's ending.
"I am an anthropologist, and for years, I have spoken to people who have had these experiences."
Forget these scientific myths to better understand your brain and yourself.
Aliens are often portrayed in popular culture as humanoid. But in reality, intelligent extraterrestrials might take far stranger forms.
Throughout history, hundreds — sometimes thousands — of people have been spontaneously compelled to dance until collapsing or dying from exhaustion. What explains this bizarre phenomenon?
In scientific theories, the Multiverse appears as a bug rather than as a feature. We should squash it.
Mary Toft staged an elaborate hoax, but the pain was real.
Some animals were even assigned their own lawyers.
In his new book, "The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power," Jacob Helberg outlines the brewing cyberwar between Western democracies and autocracies like China and Russia.
Billy was a local celebrity in the early 1900s. And he might have been a murderer.
Don’t worry that your dog’s world is visually drab.
By the end, even his mom wanted him gone.
When we feel sick, it's not just the pathogen to blame. Our brain cranks up the temperature, and the neurons responsible finally have been found.
When you combine the Uncertainty Principle with Einstein's famous equation, you get a mind-blowing result: Particles can come from nothing.
High-frequency oscillations that ripple through our brains may generate memory and conscious experience.
Many animals engage in “zoopharmacognosy” or self-medication.
Each year, several trillion pounds of microscopic silicon-based skeletons fall down the water column to pile up into siliceous ooze.
And if they could, would they care, asks philosopher John Gray in his new book.
Quantum physics is starting to show up in unexpected places. Indeed, it is at work in animals, plants, and our own bodies.
A new online religion is spreading misinformation and phony products.
The main bioactive compound in catnip seems to protect cats from mosquitoes. It might protect humans, too.
The Kalam cosmological argument asserts that everything that exists has a cause, and what caused the Universe? It's got to be God.
What Shark Tank pitches, Sundance films, and unusual sandwiches show us about our choices.
Communication among cetaceans, like whales and dolphins, looks especially promising.