In scientific theories, the Multiverse appears as a bug rather than as a feature. We should squash it.
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The media sells bad news, but scientific evidence shows that we are making progress toward a greener planet.
Ideas often taken for granted in the United States and Europe about what it means to be a person are, quite simply, not shared with other cultures.
Communication among cetaceans, like whales and dolphins, looks especially promising.
If life is common in the Universe, then where is everybody? Known as the Fermi Paradox, a new project may help solve the riddle.
Revolutionary techniques for understanding brain functions in animals could soon help us understand how emotions guide our lives.
What we’ve learning from the world’s coldest, most forbidding, and most peaceful continent.
COVID-19 and other microbes have shed light on disease spillover from animals to humans, but we can also spillback disease to wildlife.
Researchers believe they have found a single point mutation in an infection-sensing gene that causes the autoimmune disorder.
The A.I. system could improve the lives of commercially raised pigs.
What was this mammoth tusk doing on the ocean floor 150 miles from land?
It is little more than a fancy excuse for escapist fantasizing.
Recent discoveries about bodily awareness have changed how scientists think about the nature of consciousness.
Long assumed to be a devoted vegetarian, ancient sloths were fine with some meat.
An elephant at the Bronx Zoo has become a cause célèbre for animal rights activists.
Mastodons, rhinos, and even camels — all in the great state of California.
The new tool may someday be used in work that needs a light touch.
Long before Christopher and Magellan, ancient explorers voyaged into the unknown and brought home extraordinary tales.
The zebras were originally part of a newspaper tycoon’s private zoo. Now they roam the San Simeon grasslands, growing in numbers.
“Block. It puts some writers down for months. It puts some writers down for life.”
A conversation with an advanced alien species is likely to be simple and to take 1,000 years. It might also be dangerous.
From machines to animals, there are many kinds of possible minds.
Experiments cannot confirm what theory predicts about neutrinos. And particle physicists have no idea why.
A new analysis of an ancient hominin fossil sheds light on the “Out of Africa” dispersal events that occurred more than one million years ago.
An ancient continent called Balkanatolia rose and fell in the area in and around what is now the eastern Mediterranean.
Psychologist Adrian Furnham has termed this effect the male hubris, female humility problem.
The cause of the recent uptick in radiation is unknown, but speculation about another catastrophe at Chernobyl is hyperbolic.
It’s all well and good to discuss how our humanity evolved – but what even is humanity?
Technology designed to listen for atomic bombs can also hear tornadoes.
If nature were perfectly deterministic, atoms would almost instantly all collapse. Here’s how Heisenberg uncertainty saves the atom.