The apes taught sign language didn’t understand what they were doing. They were merely “aping” their caretakers.
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Sex can be a death trap even for modern toad and frog species.
Could the prevalence of flood myths around the world tell us something about early human migration or even the way our brains work?
Nothing meaningful is done quickly.
Fire-breathing dragons may represent chaos and the human impulse to conquer that threat.
Dive into the twisted truths and concealed realities told by literature’s most unreliable narrators.
A researcher explains a little-known niche within modern physics: animal collective behavior.
This year marks 2,000 years since the birth of the Roman author of the first natural encyclopedia.
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.
COVID-19 and other microbes have shed light on disease spillover from animals to humans, but we can also spillback disease to wildlife.
The bird demonstrates cutting-edge technology for devising self-folding nanoscale robots.
Carl Jung was one such person.
These enormous centipedes are straight out of science fiction.
Economic growth is more about quality than quantity.
The Vertebrate Genomes Project may spell good news for the kakapo and the vaquita.
It may seem as though top performers are always on, but the secret to their success is taking the time to recharge.
Everyone has to learn about sex somehow. Today, billions of people are learning about it from porn.
One of the scariest films of the 1970s didn’t set out to be a horror film at all.
The base rate fallacy may help to explain low reproducibility in various fields of science.
Predatory dinosaurs with big skulls tend to have tiny arms. Researchers propose there might be a direct link between those traits.
Here’s how to appreciate them from a distance.
The artifacts were often made from found objects – an Ivory dish-soap bottle transformed into an earthenware figure.
Civil engineer Martin Lebek has a brilliant plan to redress the world’s phosphorus imbalance.
Since at least 600 BC, people have been mesmerized by the concept of the infinite.
It’s common knowledge that syncing your circadian rhythm to a natural light-dark cycle could improve your health and well-being.
We are traveling in a realm that once exclusively belonged to the gods. Space travel will force humanity to rethink everything.
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.