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Are breakthroughs really a matter of chance, or are they simply waiting to be uncovered by the right person at the right time?
Pessimism reigned supreme.
To know how to protect its astronauts, NASA needs to first understand the threat.
Rock art in northern Australia depicts marsupial lions, giant kangaroos, and other megafauna that populated the Land Down Under long ago.
We should not expect aliens to look anything like us. Creatures that resemble octopuses or birds or even robots are legitimate possibilities.
Despite billions of years of life on Earth, humans first arose only ~300,000 years ago. It took all that time to make our arrival possible.
Monica Parker explains how creating opportunities for wonder can help foster a thriving, inclusive workplace.
Researchers are working nest by nest to limit the threat while developing better eradication methods.
The crisis of the Anthropocene challenges our traditional narratives and myths about humanity’s place in the world. Citizen science can help.
Did fire change the development of the human brain?
Although many dinosaurs never left the ground, they still possessed the basic structural framework for flight.
The LHC has a long, productive life ahead of it. An upgraded version, called the “High Luminosity LHC,” will be available in 2028.
Admit it: you have no idea why a group of crows is called a murder. Here’s why.
You’ll be able to sleep through a war.
The engineer working on Google’s AI, called LaMDA, suffers from what we could call Michelangelo Syndrome. Scientists must beware hubris.
Studies show talk therapy works, but experts disagree about how it does so. Finding the answer could help professionals and patients.
Like many of us, the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius hated waking up early, but his stoic philosophy always helped him get out of bed.
Often called modern-day dinosaurs, cassowaries are one of only a few birds known to have killed humans.
Virgin birth – which involves the development of an unfertilised egg – has preoccupied humans for aeons. And although it can’t happen in mammals, it does seem to be possible in […]
More than a third of Americans don’t get enough sleep. Diet is an important, under-recognized culprit.
It’s the ultimate setup for a Thanksgiving Day disaster. The physics of water and its solid, liquid, and gas phases compels us not to do it.
About 150 million years ago, a long-necked sauropod came down with a respiratory infection. The rest is history…or is it?
Google’s “Genie” could be used to create a wide range of interactive environments for more than just games.
An emerging field studies parasites that take over the nervous system of a host.
Our ancestral cousins far more intelligent than we credit them for, and they did things most of us cannot.
There are issues with Kinsey’s data, but his books revolutionized Americans’ thinking about sex and sexuality.
The brain of an ancient bird offers clues to the survival of its modern-day relatives.
You don’t have to “feel the burn” to see improvements to your health and well-being.