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The high pitches from the flute and the harp would reach your ears before the notes from the tuba and the cello.

Individuals and organizations can maintain a strong and enduring identity by repeatedly remaking themselves.

The road to intelligent life is a series of hard steps.

Spicy foods are enjoyed the world over, but scientists don’t know why people partake in culinary masochism.

A simple semantic device — invented by a forgotten senator — can help us break “the curse of knowledge.”

The list includes eleven species of birds, eight species of freshwater mussels, two fish, a bat, and a plant from the mint family.

There’s an enormous evolutionary advantage for flamingos to stand on one leg, but genetics doesn’t help. Only physics explains why.

The Seychelles magpie-robin is up for sale – yes, for sale – as a digital nature collectible.

Don’t worry that your dog’s world is visually drab.

From the explosions themselves to their unique and vibrant colors, the fireworks displays we adore require quantum physics.

He was also a eugenicist — but at least he could draw pretty pictures.

There are dozens of learning and development conferences to choose from each year. Here are 10 of the most popular, along with what makes them unique.

Like witchcraft, “racecraft” refers to a kind of magical thinking — one that treats race as if it were scientifically meaningful.

Within a month of that initial conversation, Peter Singer became a vegetarian.

It’s spooky, and it’s happening all around us. And inside us.

This map samples some of the digits that make up the DDC system, invented by the brilliant but flawed Melvil Dewey.

Before there were planets, stars, and galaxies, before even neutral atoms or stable protons, there was the Big Bang. How did we prove it?

Turning off a gene called “Myc” has a surprising effect in male fruit flies: They start courting other males.

Australian parrots have worked out how to open trash bins, and the trick is spreading across Sydney.

After almost a century in print, “How to Win Friends and Influence People” still has lessons to teach us.

With around 5,000 summertime residents, increased tourism, and a warming planet, it is becoming difficult to protect Antarctica from invasion.

To this day, one cult believes that Lemuria was real, and that its people left us the sacred wisdom to revive their advanced civilization.

“Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”

For better and worse, the Columbian Exchange plugged the Americas into the global system — and there was no going back.

Letting nature’s expert engineers lead the way.

Communication among cetaceans, like whales and dolphins, looks especially promising.

Fish are surprisingly good in numbers tests — a skill that sometimes makes the difference between life and death.

Steak for dinner?

Steve Jobs vs. Bill Gates. Lamborghini vs. Ferrari. What can the most famous rivalries teach us about human nature?

The biology behind your office’s air conditioning war.