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Billy was a local celebrity in the early 1900s. And he might have been a murderer.
Many animals practice what looks like self-medication. A new report suggests that chimps tend wounds with insects, often treating each other.
Some animals were even assigned their own lawyers.
Quantum physics is starting to show up in unexpected places. Indeed, it is at work in animals, plants, and our own bodies.
Cognitive psychologist and poet Keith Holyoak explores whether artificial intelligence could ever achieve poetic authenticity.
A new online religion is spreading misinformation and phony products.
Don’t worry that your dog’s world is visually drab.
Self-help often distills philosophical ideas for the modern ear. Sometimes, its better to go back to the source.
When you combine the Uncertainty Principle with Einstein’s famous equation, you get a mind-blowing result: Particles can come from nothing.
Meet the masterful con-men who impressed the great and the good despite the astonishing fiction of their very existence.
Each year, several trillion pounds of microscopic silicon-based skeletons fall down the water column to pile up into siliceous ooze.
In scientific theories, the Multiverse appears as a bug rather than as a feature. We should squash it.
Rejecting romanticism, these famous paintings depict war as it really is: sadistic and senseless.
In a remarkably similar way, conspiracy theories around the world cast doubt on the existence of real places.
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.
Many animals engage in “zoopharmacognosy” or self-medication.
Communication among cetaceans, like whales and dolphins, looks especially promising.
Researchers are finding signs of multiple phases of sleep all over the animal kingdom. The ‘active’ sleep phases look very much like REM.
Evolution repeatedly hit upon this solution simply because it works.
As wind power grows around the world, so does the threat the turbines pose to wildlife. From simple fixes to high-tech solutions, new approaches can help.
Invisible cloaks. Ghost imaging. Scientists are manipulating light in ways that were once only science fiction.
Democratic freedom, rapturous religion, and newspapers created a hotbed for social experimentation in 19th-century America.
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.
A new AI lie detector can dive into their hidden thoughts and reveal “what language models truly believe about the world.”
About 8% of our genome is made of leftover viruses from our ancestors’ infections.
The acceptance of our cosmic loneliness and the rarity of our planet is a wakeup call.
To Einstein, nature had to be rational. But quantum physics showed us that there was not always a way to make it so.
“All moments past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist.”