An elephant at the Bronx Zoo has become a cause célèbre for animal rights activists.
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Psychologist Adrian Furnham has termed this effect the male hubris, female humility problem.
The new tool may someday be used in work that needs a light touch.
They have held our fascination ever since we first identified their remains.
It’s all well and good to discuss how our humanity evolved – but what even is humanity?
The cause of the recent uptick in radiation is unknown, but speculation about another catastrophe at Chernobyl is hyperbolic.
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.
Technology designed to listen for atomic bombs can also hear tornadoes.
It walked enough miles to nearly circle the Earth twice.
The Human Genome Project put together 92% of our DNA blueprint. Here’s what it took to complete the rest.
About 150 million years ago, a long-necked sauropod came down with a respiratory infection. The rest is history…or is it?
The ethical debate over zoos is going to grow louder. There might be a solution that involves robots.
Fossilized footprints found at an excavation site in southwest New Mexico prove humans colonized the continent much earlier than previously thought.
Although many dinosaurs never left the ground, they still possessed the basic structural framework for flight.
We’re used to scientists telling us about the math and physics behind astronomical events. But what does studying space make us feel?
Slowing growth and limiting development isn’t living in harmony with nature—it is surrendering in a battle.
Maps can do more than show us places. They also can help determined people find others long lost, whether birth mothers or fugitive killers.
Both views are equally spectacular, but unequally informative. Every so often, a creative amateur project highlights our professional achievements. This mosaic shows the region between the constellations of Cygnus and […]
The peasant turned czarist advisor has come to be known and feared as the devil incarnate, but was he really as demonic as we have been led to believe?
From corrupt czars to bloodthirsty Bolsheviks, Russia has had no shortage of bad leaders. But just how evil were they really?
We spend much of our early years learning arithmetic and algebra. What’s the use?
The pieces don’t represent an army, they stand in for the Western social order.
A school lesson leads to more precise measurements of the extinct megalodon shark, one of the largest fish ever.
Sharks fear killer whales. How does this impact the ecosystems they share?
One million year old mammoth DNA more than doubles the previous record and suggests that even older genomes could be found.
Deep underwater, temperatures are close to freezing and the pressure is 1,000 times higher than at sea level.
It’s the early 20th century, and you are the captain of a ship. A barquentine specifically—three masts and a coal-burning steam engine in her belly. She’s a sturdy and capable […]
Most of us will never run a 4 minute mile. But on a bicycle, almost anyone can do it. As human beings, we often take for granted how our bodies work. […]
Australian researchers figure out a new way to apply extreme pressure and squeeze out diamonds.
Researchers document the first example of evolutionary changes in a plant in response to humans.