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A famous explorer’s doomed ship is finally found 107 years after it was lost to the Antarctic deep.

Dreams of resurrecting lost species didn’t start in Hollywood or Silicon Valley.

By studying the oldest animals, researchers hope to pinpoint factors affecting human longevity.

One player’s pawn is another’s farmer. And at one time, the queen was a rather powerless virgin.

Science writer Matt Ridley joins us to discuss how “Darwin’s strangest idea” makes us all a bit feather-brained (in a good way).

The media sells bad news, but scientific evidence shows that we are making progress toward a greener planet.

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.

Elephants mourn the dead, dolphins give names to each other, and insects can recognize faces. The animal world is much smarter than we think.

Many animals engage in “zoopharmacognosy” or self-medication.

A biotech startup has received $15 million in funding to genetically recreate woolly mammoths and rewild them in Siberia.

“This fourth wave will be worse than it’s ever been before.”

What we’ve learning from the world’s coldest, most forbidding, and most peaceful continent.

“I watched closely for the sun or stars to appear, to correct my chronometer, on the accuracy of which our lives and the success of the journey would depend.”

Mammals have a history stretching back 325 million years. To study that ancient history is to know our own origins.

Although mammals may be the dominant form of life today, we’re relative newcomers on planet Earth. Here’s our place in natural history.

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.

That’s as fast as a bullet train in Japan.

If nature were perfectly deterministic, atoms would almost instantly all collapse. Here’s how Heisenberg uncertainty saves the atom.

As the world warms, trees in forests such as those in Minnesota will no longer be adapted to their local climates. That’s where assisted migration comes in.

In scientific theories, the Multiverse appears as a bug rather than as a feature. We should squash it.

Recent discoveries about bodily awareness have changed how scientists think about the nature of consciousness.

They have held our fascination ever since we first identified their remains.

A conversation with an advanced alien species is likely to be simple and to take 1,000 years. It might also be dangerous.

Revolutionary techniques for understanding brain functions in animals could soon help us understand how emotions guide our lives.

It is little more than a fancy excuse for escapist fantasizing.

Researchers believe they have found a single point mutation in an infection-sensing gene that causes the autoimmune disorder.

“Block. It puts some writers down for months. It puts some writers down for life.”

COVID-19 and other microbes have shed light on disease spillover from animals to humans, but we can also spillback disease to wildlife.

The A.I. system could improve the lives of commercially raised pigs.