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Using data collected from ancient civilizations across the world, researchers identified the most significant factors in human development. War came out on top.
Our social instincts can lead us to adopt models of desire that might not serve our interests.
When the Universe was first born, the ingredients necessary for life were nowhere to be found. Only our “lucky stars” enabled our existence.
The National Ignition Facility just repeated, and improved upon, their earlier demonstration of nuclear fusion. Now, the true race begins.
Dating of volcanic ash suggests the remains are at least 230,000 years old.
A new study suggests that reports of the impending infertility of the human male are greatly exaggerated.
A black swan event is rare but disruptive — and might be predictable.
Scientists do not know what is causing the overabundance of the gas.
There’s a fatal prion infection killing deer and elk across North America.
A volley of new insights reignites the debate over whether our choices are ever truly our own.
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?
Left to their own devices, yeast cells will consume all available resources and poison themselves to death. Is humanity smarter than that?
It walked enough miles to nearly circle the Earth twice.
The answer to the age-old philosophical question of whether there is meaning in the Universe may ultimately rest upon the power of information.
With around 5,000 summertime residents, increased tourism, and a warming planet, it is becoming difficult to protect Antarctica from invasion.
A genetic study of British Columbia grizzly bears finds a weird link to local human languages.
Capacitors, acid batteries, and other methods of storing electric charges all lose energy over time. These gravity-fed batteries won’t.
Driven by a childhood marked by war and environmental devastation, Dyhia Belhabib developed an innovative technology to combat illegal fishing.
Researchers find that the coffee pulp is valuable in its own right.
65 million years ago, a massive asteroid struck Earth. Not only did Jupiter not stop it, but it probably caused the impact itself.
The British economic anthropologist Jason Hickel proposes “degrowth” in the face of recession.
Assume we can make new thylacines, mammoths, diprotodons, or sabre-tooth cats. Great. Now where do we put them?
Often called modern-day dinosaurs, cassowaries are one of only a few birds known to have killed humans.
A new brain imaging study explored how different levels of the brain’s excitatory and inhibitory neurotransmitters are linked to math abilities.
Participation in community science programs has skyrocketed during COVID-19 lockdowns.
There will always be “wolf-criers” whose claims wither under scrutiny. But aliens are certainly out there, if science dares to find them.
Fossilized footprints found at an excavation site in southwest New Mexico prove humans colonized the continent much earlier than previously thought.
Life finds a way — in this case, by smelling like death.
Awe is a powerful force, a fact that is both exciting and terrifying.