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Turning off a gene called “Myc” has a surprising effect in male fruit flies: They start courting other males.
Everyone has to learn about sex somehow. Today, billions of people are learning about it from porn.
Communication among cetaceans, like whales and dolphins, looks especially promising.
It may seem as though top performers are always on, but the secret to their success is taking the time to recharge.
Ada Lovelace’s skills with language, music, and needlepoint all contributed to her pioneering work in computing.
“It is more human to laugh at life than to lament it.”
With around 5,000 summertime residents, increased tourism, and a warming planet, it is becoming difficult to protect Antarctica from invasion.
Dive into the twisted truths and concealed realities told by literature’s most unreliable narrators.
Fish are surprisingly good in numbers tests — a skill that sometimes makes the difference between life and death.
A new bill introduced into the US Senate claims to make us safer. Instead, it would destroy all virology research, and for no real cause.
If tourism is the lifeblood of the Peruvian economy, then Machu Picchu is the heart pumping that blood — in sickness and in health.
Letting nature’s expert engineers lead the way.
The biology behind your office’s air conditioning war.
Could the prevalence of flood myths around the world tell us something about early human migration or even the way our brains work?
Australian parrots have worked out how to open trash bins, and the trick is spreading across Sydney.
This year marks 2,000 years since the birth of the Roman author of the first natural encyclopedia.
Steve Jobs vs. Bill Gates. Lamborghini vs. Ferrari. What can the most famous rivalries teach us about human nature?
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Nothing meaningful is done quickly.
From Amazon to the US Army, everybody wants one (or 150).
A researcher explains a little-known niche within modern physics: animal collective behavior.
Sex can be a death trap even for modern toad and frog species.
Elephants mourn the dead, dolphins give names to each other, and insects can recognize faces. The animal world is much smarter than we think.
Fire-breathing dragons may represent chaos and the human impulse to conquer that threat.
Carl Jung was one such person.
The apes taught sign language didn’t understand what they were doing. They were merely “aping” their caretakers.
In 2017, a kilonova sent light and gravitational waves across the Universe. Here on Earth, there was a 1.7 second signal arrival delay. Why?
Economic growth is more about quality than quantity.