Drones have a lot to learn from the landing abilities of birds.
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This map samples some of the digits that make up the DDC system, invented by the brilliant but flawed Melvil Dewey.
After almost a century in print, “How to Win Friends and Influence People” still has lessons to teach us.
“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?”
We should not expect aliens to look anything like us. Creatures that resemble octopuses or birds or even robots are legitimate possibilities.
The engineer working on Google’s AI, called LaMDA, suffers from what we could call Michelangelo Syndrome. Scientists must beware hubris.
The road to intelligent life is a series of hard steps.
You don’t have to “feel the burn” to see improvements to your health and well-being.
The controversial theory about magic mushrooms and human evolution gets a much-needed update.
Admit it: you have no idea why a group of crows is called a murder. Here’s why.
Although many dinosaurs never left the ground, they still possessed the basic structural framework for flight.
Within a month of that initial conversation, Peter Singer became a vegetarian.
Don’t worry that your dog’s world is visually drab.
Spicy foods are enjoyed the world over, but scientists don’t know why people partake in culinary masochism.
To this day, one cult believes that Lemuria was real, and that its people left us the sacred wisdom to revive their advanced civilization.
Before there were planets, stars, and galaxies, before even neutral atoms or stable protons, there was the Big Bang. How did we prove it?
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.
An emerging field studies parasites that take over the nervous system of a host.
He was also a eugenicist — but at least he could draw pretty pictures.
About 150 million years ago, a long-necked sauropod came down with a respiratory infection. The rest is history…or is it?
The high pitches from the flute and the harp would reach your ears before the notes from the tuba and the cello.
Everyone has to learn about sex somehow. Today, billions of people are learning about it from porn.
There’s an enormous evolutionary advantage for flamingos to stand on one leg, but genetics doesn’t help. Only physics explains why.
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 […]
For better and worse, the Columbian Exchange plugged the Americas into the global system — and there was no going back.
It’s spooky, and it’s happening all around us. And inside us.
Often called modern-day dinosaurs, cassowaries are one of only a few birds known to have killed humans.
Many, from neuroscientists to philosophers to anesthesiologists, have claimed to understand consciousness. Do physicists? Does anyone?