Evolutionary success is not about the number of one’s children, but one’s grandchildren: the children need to survive and pass on their genes.
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Space weather poses a tremendous threat to all satellites, knocking all computer systems offline. Is that a recipe for Kessler syndrome?
Civil engineer Martin Lebek has a brilliant plan to redress the world’s phosphorus imbalance.
The more horror we consume, the harder it becomes to find a good scare. These genuinely unsettling movies should get you in the mood for Halloween.
We eat 50 billion chickens every year. Is there a better way?
Today’s philosophy students would be justified in asking, “What does any of this have to do with living?”
On November 25, U.N. members will meet in South Korea to cap off a series of meetings aiming to reduce global plastic pollution.
They have held our fascination ever since we first identified their remains.
Unmasking a “convenient untruth” in U.S. politics.
We are traveling in a realm that once exclusively belonged to the gods. Space travel will force humanity to rethink everything.
COVID-19 and other microbes have shed light on disease spillover from animals to humans, but we can also spillback disease to wildlife.
Planet Earth has been around for over 4.5 billion years, but humans? For 99.998% of our planet’s history, humans were nowhere to be found.
The artifacts were often made from found objects – an Ivory dish-soap bottle transformed into an earthenware figure.
Here’s how to appreciate them from a distance.
Predatory dinosaurs with big skulls tend to have tiny arms. Researchers propose there might be a direct link between those traits.
The base rate fallacy may help to explain low reproducibility in various fields of science.
Pando is a stand of aspen in Utah that is 14,000 years old and weighs 12 million pounds. Humans threaten to end its long reign.
Since at least 600 BC, people have been mesmerized by the concept of the infinite.
The danger posed by conversational AI isn’t that it can say weird or dark things; it’s personalized manipulation for nefarious purposes.
It’s common knowledge that syncing your circadian rhythm to a natural light-dark cycle could improve your health and well-being.
To do more, it sometimes pays to do nothing at all.
The cognitive scientist argues the current AI environment is failing us as consumers and a society. But it’s not too late to change course.
Human beings are descendants of these early tetrapods – at least those who made a new life on land.
These enormous centipedes are straight out of science fiction.
One of the scariest films of the 1970s didn’t set out to be a horror film at all.
The farther away they get, the smaller distant galaxies look. But only up to a point, and beyond that, they appear larger again. Here’s how.
Digital nomads can fully immerse themselves in their surroundings while advancing their career and stimulating the local economy. But there is one potential downside.
The Vertebrate Genomes Project may spell good news for the kakapo and the vaquita.
From machines to animals, there are many kinds of possible minds.