Pokémon has people wandering the world to enslave wild and magical creatures so they can fight in painful blood sports. What’s fun about that?
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A recent advance in 3D imaging techniques helped spark the biggest ever discovery of North American cave art.
While a squirrel’s life may look simple to human observers – climb, eat, sleep, repeat – it involves finely tuned cognitive skills.
For the ancients, hospitality was an inviolable law enforced by gods and priests and anyone else with the power to make you pay dearly for mistreating a stranger.
Pando, which is Latin for “I spread,” is a single organism spanning some 106 acres.
Ancient humans may have evolved to slumber efficiently — and in a crowd.
Technology has advanced at a blinding pace in the past 150 years. That won’t always happen.
Setting resolutions for the new year means you think the future is up to you — but is it?
Linguistic laws are remarkably versatile and have applications in ecology, microbiology, epidemiology, demographics, and geography.
Inspired by the group behaviors of simple animals, a team of roboticists has developed a new way for swarm robots to maneuver on land.
In “Off the Edge”, journalist Kelly Weill dives down the strange rabbit hole of the flat-Earther community.
Studio Ghibli movies celebrate the natural world using a very Japanese mixture of Shinto, Buddhist, and Daoist themes.
Could medical detection animals smell coronavirus?
From forecasting stock prices to diagnosing disease, Swarm AI enables better group decisions.
Scientific pluralism is the notion that some questions must be approached from many angles. How can we integrate these scientific models?
From the explosions themselves to their unique and vibrant colors, the fireworks displays we adore require quantum physics.
One of the world’s most isolated island groups has just been made one of the world’s largest ocean reserves.
Looking with lasers, researchers discovered that many Olmec and Mayan ruins seem to have been constructed from the same blueprint.
“I watched closely for the sun or stars to appear, to correct my chronometer, on the accuracy of which our lives and the success of the journey would depend.”
For the Iroquois, it was a type of military training and a way to honor the gods.
Acorn woodpecker battles over prized territory are serious business.
Modern applications of Stoicism show up in unexpected places, from the latest techniques in psychotherapy to texts on Christian theology.
The power tower has superior physics but inferior economics.
When you unintentionally step on a dog’s tail, does it know that it was an accident?
Starting just about now, leaves start changing color from north to south, high to low, light to dark.
Across the world, wildlife is under severe threat.
Seawater is raising salt levels in coastal woodlands along the entire Atlantic Coastal Plain, from Maine to Florida.
Here are five things to know before conducting a training evaluation.
Crows have their own version of the human cerebral cortex.
The beauty of this magical medicine called silence is that it is available to all of us, even in cities, if only we care to listen.