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He was also a eugenicist — but at least he could draw pretty pictures.
Letting nature’s expert engineers lead the way.
Turning off a gene called “Myc” has a surprising effect in male fruit flies: They start courting other males.
Google’s “Genie” could be used to create a wide range of interactive environments for more than just games.
There are dozens of learning and development conferences to choose from each year. Here are 10 of the most popular, along with what makes them unique.
It’s spooky, and it’s happening all around us. And inside us.
Steve Jobs vs. Bill Gates. Lamborghini vs. Ferrari. What can the most famous rivalries teach us about human nature?
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Fish are surprisingly good in numbers tests — a skill that sometimes makes the difference between life and death.
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.
Within a month of that initial conversation, Peter Singer became a vegetarian.
Before there were planets, stars, and galaxies, before even neutral atoms or stable protons, there was the Big Bang. How did we prove it?
We eat 50 billion chickens every year. Is there a better way?
The biology behind your office’s air conditioning war.
Elephants mourn the dead, dolphins give names to each other, and insects can recognize faces. The animal world is much smarter than we think.
Communication among cetaceans, like whales and dolphins, looks especially promising.
The more horror we consume, the harder it becomes to find a good scare. These genuinely unsettling movies should get you in the mood for Halloween.
For better and worse, the Columbian Exchange plugged the Americas into the global system — and there was no going back.
Ada Lovelace’s skills with language, music, and needlepoint all contributed to her pioneering work in computing.
From the explosions themselves to their unique and vibrant colors, the fireworks displays we adore require quantum physics.
To this day, one cult believes that Lemuria was real, and that its people left us the sacred wisdom to revive their advanced civilization.
This map samples some of the digits that make up the DDC system, invented by the brilliant but flawed Melvil Dewey.
“It is more human to laugh at life than to lament it.”
From Amazon to the US Army, everybody wants one (or 150).
If tourism is the lifeblood of the Peruvian economy, then Machu Picchu is the heart pumping that blood — in sickness and in health.
The apes taught sign language didn’t understand what they were doing. They were merely “aping” their caretakers.
Sex can be a death trap even for modern toad and frog species.
Fire-breathing dragons may represent chaos and the human impulse to conquer that threat.