Our ancestral cousins far more intelligent than we credit them for, and they did things most of us cannot.
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From surviving on wild plants and game to controlling our world with technology, humanity’s journey of progress is a story of expanding human agency.
The lush biodiversity of South America’s rainforests is rooted in one of the most cataclysmic events that ever struck Earth.
Historians know how military technologies evolved, but the reasons why remain poorly understood.
A study from Carnegie Mellon University tracks the travels of tarantulas since the Cretaceous period.
Biologists use commonly-found insects that engage in cannibalism to prove a key evolutionary concept.
Some wild animals thrive near humans, but only up to a point.
Snakes and mammals share common genetic building blocks necessary for producing venom.
Genetic analysis reveals that a specimen collected in 2019 is the same subspecies as one caught more than a century earlier.
It is difficult to save a species that does not seem to care about saving itself.
Is there actually anything deserving of the term AI?
Across the world, wildlife is under severe threat.
Their success is based on us adopting a plant-based diet, too.
With a telescope at just the right distance from the Sun, we could use its gravity to enhance and magnify a potentially inhabited planet.
To date, only one research vessel has ever encountered a milky sea.
Understanding the factors behind recent growth could help us better approach inequality.
The list includes eleven species of birds, eight species of freshwater mussels, two fish, a bat, and a plant from the mint family.
Declining bee populations could lead to increased food insecurity and economic losses in the billions.
How do these little beasties detect light anyway?
“Don’t tread on me” is a slogan of the deep sea, too.
The closest star system to Earth, just over 4 light-years away, has three stars and at least one Earth-sized planet. Is it time to go there?
A new paper explores how noise from human activities pollutes the oceans, and what we can do to fix it.
Researchers believe that war exacerbates climate change, threatening the environment and making future wars more likely.
Their ear structures were not that different from ours.
A tourist generally has an eye for the things that have become almost invisible to the resident.
Carbon locked in soils can be emitted by bacteria. Turning up the heat on them releases more carbon.
Seawater is raising salt levels in coastal woodlands along the entire Atlantic Coastal Plain, from Maine to Florida.
When we try to recreate simpler versions of natural ecosystems, we invariably make mistakes, argues author and biologist Rob Dunn.
Affluence could be our real downfall.
75 years after Erwin Schrödinger’s prescient description of something like DNA, we still don’t know the “laws of life.”