There’s an enormous evolutionary advantage for flamingos to stand on one leg, but genetics doesn’t help. Only physics explains why.
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To preserve biodiversity and ecosystems, protected areas should be connected into a gigantic World Park.
A lucky discovery involving lithium-sulfur batteries has a legitimate chance to revolutionize how we power our world.
In the spirit of the 1969 moon landing, we now have a golden opportunity to pursue “nondisruptive” creative solutions.
Inflection points veer life in unexpected directions. While unnerving, they provide opportunities for those who can navigate them.
If tourism is the lifeblood of the Peruvian economy, then Machu Picchu is the heart pumping that blood — in sickness and in health.
Scientists across a range of disciplines have helped solve Darwin’s dilemma.
Synthetic biology has the power to cure and kill. Have we learned from our past mistakes?
Just as human beings diversified so that people in Asia look different from people in Europe, so too did their microbiomes.
These enormous centipedes are straight out of science fiction.
We got lucky with our evolutionary history.
Researchers are finding signs of multiple phases of sleep all over the animal kingdom. The ‘active’ sleep phases look very much like REM.
There were at least eight other human species, some of whom existed for far longer than we have. Who were they?
From astrobiology to geology, a Moon base could serve as a laboratory unlike anything on Earth.
Letting nature’s expert engineers lead the way.
These animals to grow scalpel-sharp and precisely shaped tools that are resistant to breaking.
Inside the “out there” quest for a drug that would help doctors save lives before it’s too late.
Economic growth is more about quality than quantity.
The site will be the first working example of a geological disposal facility.
Turning away is a natural response.
We want to fight invasive species. But to wage a war, you have to know who your enemy is.
The crisis of the Anthropocene challenges our traditional narratives and myths about humanity’s place in the world. Citizen science can help.
Skilled hunters adapted to the changing landscape and left tantalizing clues to who they were.
The zebras were originally part of a newspaper tycoon’s private zoo. Now they roam the San Simeon grasslands, growing in numbers.
The story of dog domestication is one of converting the wild wolf into man’s nicer, smarter, best friend. It might be all wrong.
Despite billions of years of life on Earth, humans first arose only ~300,000 years ago. It took all that time to make our arrival possible.
A new method of extracting rare-earth elements could put us on the track toward a circular economy.
It’s not about leaves in tall trees.
For decades, researchers have proposed that climate change and human-caused environmental destruction led to demographic collapse on Easter Island. That’s probably false, according to new research.