Mammals have a history stretching back 325 million years. To study that ancient history is to know our own origins.
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Admit it, caring for your pet can make you happy too. Science is working on why.
A new study calls the technique “location spoofing.”
Someday, presumably, we’ll go back to our lives. Our furry buddies will wonder where we went.
A new study finds that dogs fed fresh human-grade food don’t need to eat—or do their business—as much.
Dennis Klatt developed trailblazing text-to-speech systems before losing his own voice to cancer.
On the list of animals at risk are several endangered species.
50% of stars are in Sun-like ‘singlet’ systems. The planetary nebulae we see just don’t line up. Around 7 billion years from now, our Sun’s life will end. As the Sun […]
A new study finds surprising evidence of the self-domestication of urban foxes.
An exclusive interview with physicist Lee Smolin reveals how abandoning Einstein’s dream may have been a terrible mistake.
The Earth is not flat. Here’s how you can prove it.
If you go young, blue, and massive, you top out at 50,000 K. That’s peanuts! Surprise! The biggest, most massive stars aren’t always the hottest. Although its neighbor, Messier 42, […]
The very concept of a “problem with no solution” goes against human nature. But we must accept this harsh reality to have peace in our lives.
Even physicists sometimes fall for these. For centuries, the laws of physics seemed completely deterministic. If you knew where every particle was, how fast it was moving, and what the forces […]
It’s a very human behavior—arguably one of the fundamentals that makes us us.
Discussions of human evolution are usually backward looking, as if the greatest triumphs and challenges were in the distant past.
If there really is another version of you out there in a parallel universe, what can that teach us about reality?
One image can give over 100 times the data we now get from Hubble. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, launched in 1990, revealed the previously unseen Universe. The most distant galaxy ever […]
Social media seems to stress some people out. Maybe its time for a break?
Your cat thinks your taste stinks. Also that you’re mingy with the laser pointer.
How Nobel Prize winner physicist Lev Landau ranked the best physics minds of his generation.
It’s a precautionary measure stemming from fears that mutated coronavirus strains may reduce the efficacy of future vaccines.
Man’s best friend indeed.
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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An experiment in Botswana suggests a non-lethal deterrent for predatory lions.
Researchers at UCSF have trained an algorithm to parse meaning from neural activity.
You’re gonna die, cloud! All stars, even our Sun, will someday eventually die. After burning on the main sequence for billions of years, the Sun will expand into a red giant, […]
Coronavirus infecting your pup is extremely unlikely, but there are some precautions you can take for your pets during the pandemic.