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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.
Philosopher Peter Singer argues it’s time to examine a morally dubious practice.
Livestock now outweighs wild mammals and birds ten-fold.
Meet your new flying nightmare: Thapunngaka shawi.
Only nine weeks later, the Wright Brothers achieved manned flight. The pathologically cynical always will find a reason to complain.
The long-standing debate over whether dinosaurs were more like birds or lizards is drawing to a close.
Head direction cells act like internal compasses to help the birds navigate during long flights.
Murmurations have no leader and follow no plan.
Disgusting behavior is often crucial to survival.
The space‑specific neurons in the owl’s specialized auditory brain can do advanced math.
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.
If dogs are out in coats and boots, how are the squirrels feeling?
The world’s workplaces are growing lonelier — but the solution requires less than you might expect.
Climate and ecological changes, as well as disruptions to the food chain, were already killing off the dinosaurs.
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.”
Researchers are finding signs of multiple phases of sleep all over the animal kingdom. The ‘active’ sleep phases look very much like REM.
AIs can imitate but not innovate — for now, at least.
Here’s the dark side of first contact.
“You gotta know when to fold ’em.”
Are breakthroughs really a matter of chance, or are they simply waiting to be uncovered by the right person at the right time?
Evolution repeatedly hit upon this solution simply because it works.
Far from being a “dead” pursuit that focuses on old ideas, modern philosophy proposes and debates important, new concepts. All of us can learn from it.
To know how to protect its astronauts, NASA needs to first understand the threat.