Neuroscience is beginning to provide clues about the emergence of human consciousness.
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Buddhism has rules for slaying your enemies. But the real surprise is finding out who your enemies actually are.
Some astrobiologists believe life is rare, while others believe it is common in the Universe. How can we find out which view is correct?
Photosynthesis is powerful but very inefficient. Humans can improve on this biochemical process to help the planet.
The list includes eleven species of birds, eight species of freshwater mussels, two fish, a bat, and a plant from the mint family.
Fossil Cycad National Monument held America’s richest deposit of petrified cycadeoid plants, until it didn’t.
The majority of people in every country support action on climate, but the public consistently underestimates this share.
A black swan event is rare but disruptive — and might be predictable.
The laws of physics don’t prefer matter over antimatter. So how can we be certain that distant stars & galaxies aren’t made of antimatter?
When maps meet stamps, you get a love child called “cartophilately.”
Mammals have a history stretching back 325 million years. To study that ancient history is to know our own origins.
Research suggests that experience may matter more than innate ability when it comes to a sense of direction.
Brian C. Muraresku, New York Times best-selling author of “The Immortality Key,” unpacks ancient evidence for the widespread ritual use of psychoactive plants.
There’s a fatal prion infection killing deer and elk across North America.
A study finds 1.8 billion trees and shrubs in the Sahara desert.
Wizbang innovations capture the public’s imagination, but thoughtful, incremental development is often more valuable to those in need.
Safety through technology is no bad thing—Nietzsche himself sought doctors and medicines throughout his life—but it can become pathological.
From questionable shipwrecks to outright attacks, the Sentinelese clearly don’t want to be bothered.
A study proposes that an ancient trading network, called the Hopewell tradition, may have been wiped out by what is known as a cosmic airburst.
Inspired by the group behaviors of simple animals, a team of roboticists has developed a new way for swarm robots to maneuver on land.
More than a century after the end of hostilities in 1918, some battlefields of WWI are still deadly enough to kill you.
The researchers say their findings support the idea that low biodiversity in modern living environments could lead to “uneducated” immune systems.
The puzzle of play
The purpose of play — for children, monkeys, rats or meerkats — has proved surprisingly hard to pin down. Scientists continue to toss around ideas.
Often called modern-day dinosaurs, cassowaries are one of only a few birds known to have killed humans.
What Odysseus needed from his father was something more important: the comfort of being a son.
All nations have founding myths, but none are quite like Russia’s.
Using DNA from samples of extinct flowers, synthetic biologists managed to approximate long-lost floral scents.