By studying the oldest animals, researchers hope to pinpoint factors affecting human longevity.
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“This fourth wave will be worse than it’s ever been before.”
Mammals have a history stretching back 325 million years. To study that ancient history is to know our own origins.
Many animals engage in “zoopharmacognosy” or self-medication.
The media sells bad news, but scientific evidence shows that we are making progress toward a greener planet.
Why Netflix adopted the “No Brilliant Asshole” rule — and how to make sure bullies don’t destroy teams.
Communication among cetaceans, like whales and dolphins, looks especially promising.
If life is common in the Universe, then where is everybody? Known as the Fermi Paradox, a new project may help solve the riddle.
Ideas often taken for granted in the United States and Europe about what it means to be a person are, quite simply, not shared with other cultures.
In scientific theories, the Multiverse appears as a bug rather than as a feature. We should squash it.
What we’ve learning from the world’s coldest, most forbidding, and most peaceful continent.
Revolutionary techniques for understanding brain functions in animals could soon help us understand how emotions guide our lives.
COVID-19 and other microbes have shed light on disease spillover from animals to humans, but we can also spillback disease to wildlife.
Researchers believe they have found a single point mutation in an infection-sensing gene that causes the autoimmune disorder.
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The A.I. system could improve the lives of commercially raised pigs.
Recent discoveries about bodily awareness have changed how scientists think about the nature of consciousness.
What was this mammoth tusk doing on the ocean floor 150 miles from land?
A conversation with an advanced alien species is likely to be simple and to take 1,000 years. It might also be dangerous.
“Block. It puts some writers down for months. It puts some writers down for life.”
Long before Christopher and Magellan, ancient explorers voyaged into the unknown and brought home extraordinary tales.
The zebras were originally part of a newspaper tycoon’s private zoo. Now they roam the San Simeon grasslands, growing in numbers.
Long assumed to be a devoted vegetarian, ancient sloths were fine with some meat.
Experiments cannot confirm what theory predicts about neutrinos. And particle physicists have no idea why.
Although mammals may be the dominant form of life today, we’re relative newcomers on planet Earth. Here’s our place in natural history.
From machines to animals, there are many kinds of possible minds.
If nature were perfectly deterministic, atoms would almost instantly all collapse. Here’s how Heisenberg uncertainty saves the atom.
Mastodons, rhinos, and even camels — all in the great state of California.
A new analysis of an ancient hominin fossil sheds light on the “Out of Africa” dispersal events that occurred more than one million years ago.
An ancient continent called Balkanatolia rose and fell in the area in and around what is now the eastern Mediterranean.