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Don’t just point and shoot, point and learn! These apps are fun for nature lovers, and contribute to scientific databases of flora and fauna.
They proved how the biological mechanism works inside our cells.
A Swiss scientist identifies the top predator in the world in a new study.
Scientists realize that fish are sentient and intelligent, though unfortunately, they also get depressed.
Scientists are calling the results of such fortifications “bionicomposites.”
In line with his own ingrained assumptions, the standard ones of Victorian England, Darwin maintained that female inferiority is an inescapable consequence of nature.
The program picked up association biases nearly identical to those seen in human subjects.
Over 2 billion people worldwide eat insects, such as crickets. Crickets are easy to harvest, high in protein, and nutrient rich. In an age of growing environmental awareness about the significant resources needed for raising livestock, crickets would seemingly be the food of the future. Why aren’t they on your dinner plate?
Turns out, organisms may be using quantum mechanics to gain evolutionary advantages.
Rachel Carson effectively stopped the usage of DDT. This has led to disastrous consequences, writes Paul Offit in his new book, Pandora’s Lab.
Warning: these maps might leave a strange taste in your mouth
Scientists find a surprising way to biodegrade plastic at an impressively fast rate.
In How Emotions Are Made psychology professor Lisa Fedlman Barrett considers the role of emotions in health.
Natural “narrative selection” was key to turning insignificant apes (who had tools for 2 million years) into the species that now dominates the bio-sphere.
This breakthrough could improve virtual and augmented reality, surveillance, and reconnaissance.
If you can’t look at the full suite of evidence and tell the full truth, you’re nothing but a deliberate misleader. At best. “Climate change does not respect border; it does […]
How can we stop extinction? One solution scientists have been developing for decades is de-extinction — the process of resurrecting extinct species through genetic engineering.
A “forbidden research” conference at MIT tackles areas of science constrained by ethical, cultural and institutional restrictions.
The beloved honeybee has more in common with vertebrates that anyone thought.
Trees are far from dumb; they talk and share, because they need each other to live better lives.
Does the move come out of an obligation to fairness, or some other reason?
An Israeli study found that the smell of women’s tears sunk men’s testosterone levels and sex drive.
Alien life may be so different from us that we wouldn’t even recognize it as life.
Plants can even ward off invaders through “Earth’s natural internet.”
Bees help pollenate much of our crops. Without them, the food supply is doomed.
Of all the fictional ways humanity might possibly kill itself, zombies are the most likely. Here’s the data to prove it.
“What we perceive as color — what we perceive as light — corresponds to a very narrow band of frequencies, out of an infinite continuum,” says Nobel Laureate Frank Wilczek.
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Through human caused climate change, we are barreling toward a world with less stability, less resources, more disease, and more lives lost to extreme weather events.