The “island rule” hypothesizes that species shrink or supersize to fill insular niches not available to them on the mainland.
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What you see is what you hear.
Baby mice can regenerate damaged hair cells — and now that we know how they do it, maybe we can, too.
Philosopher Peter Singer argues it’s time to examine a morally dubious practice.
Most male mammals have little or nothing to do with their kids. Why is our own species different?
Humans are good visual thinkers, too, but we tend to privilege verbal thinking.
The word “turkey” can refer to everything from the bird itself to a populous Eurasian country to movie flops.
Livestock now outweighs wild mammals and birds ten-fold.
Only nine weeks later, the Wright Brothers achieved manned flight. The pathologically cynical always will find a reason to complain.
Meet your new flying nightmare: Thapunngaka shawi.
Total eclipses are a product of a strange and almost eerie cosmic coincidence — one that makes Earth an even rarer world in the galaxy and, by proxy, in the Universe.
The long-standing debate over whether dinosaurs were more like birds or lizards is drawing to a close.
The world’s workplaces are growing lonelier — but the solution requires less than you might expect.
The space‑specific neurons in the owl’s specialized auditory brain can do advanced math.
13.8 columnist Marcelo Gleiser reflects on his recent voyage to Earth’s last wild continent.
A new framework describes how thought arises from the coordination of neural activity driven by oscillating electric fields — a.k.a. brain “waves” or “rhythms.”
Head direction cells act like internal compasses to help the birds navigate during long flights.
Murmurations have no leader and follow no plan.
Researchers are finding signs of multiple phases of sleep all over the animal kingdom. The ‘active’ sleep phases look very much like REM.
If dogs are out in coats and boots, how are the squirrels feeling?
Climate and ecological changes, as well as disruptions to the food chain, were already killing off the dinosaurs.
Disgusting behavior is often crucial to survival.
Here’s the dark side of first contact.
AIs can imitate but not innovate — for now, at least.
Are breakthroughs really a matter of chance, or are they simply waiting to be uncovered by the right person at the right time?
To know how to protect its astronauts, NASA needs to first understand the threat.
“You gotta know when to fold ’em.”