Intellectual humility demands that we examine our motivations for holding certain beliefs.
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Letting nature’s expert engineers lead the way.
Certain water beetles can escape from frogs after being consumed.
The ‘Monkeydactyl’ was a flying reptile that evolved highly specialized adaptations in the Mesozoic Era.
Deep underwater, temperatures are close to freezing and the pressure is 1,000 times higher than at sea level.
Evolutionary success is not about the number of one’s children, but one’s grandchildren: the children need to survive and pass on their genes.
Two new studies examine ways we could engineer human wormhole travel.
Metal really does sometimes stick to some people’s skin. Here’s the science of why. Every once in a while, a claim comes along that wildly challenges the mainstream scientific narrative. These […]
In an excerpt from her recent book, the behavior geneticist Kathryn Paige Harden carefully explores a topic that’s often considered taboo: how genetics affect life outcomes.
Quantum theory has weird implications. Trying to explain them just makes things weirder.
Another amazing tardigrade survival skill is discovered.
What responsibility should government authorities and Big Tech take in policing the spread of sedition-oriented content?
The dream of zero resistance is closer than you may think. One of the biggest physical problems in modern society is resistance. Not political or social resistance, mind you, but electrical […]
Scientists envision a new type of organism ready to assist humans.
Dominant wild silverbacks wax musical with their mouths full.
Here’s why scary stories were once an integral part of Christmas Eve festivities.
In his new book, The Deep History of Ourselves, Joseph LeDoux explains where we come from.
Today, a quickly emerging set of technologies known as bioprinting is poised to push the boundaries further.
Microbes screened with a new microfluidic process might be used in power generation or environmental cleanup.
The first in a three-part series on the history of research on the origin of life.
Animal extinction is, after all, inevitable in the natural world — some have even called it the “engine of evolution”. So why should extinction matter to us?
Maybe the only chance they have to tell their story before they’re gone.
The speed of death isn’t as instantaneous as you may think.
The natural world evolved many pop culture frights long before storytellers used them to terrify us.
The greatest danger to our planet is not pollution or climate change, but our own despair.
Mosquitos kill about 725,000 people a year… making them the deadliest animal in the world. Our own blood could kill them, thanks to a new study of an old drug.