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Barbara J. King on animal emotions, anthropomorphism, and the future of the planet.
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If you don’t want to know anything about your death, consider this your spoiler warning.
It’s absolutely true that atoms are mostly empty space. But removing even that empty space is impossible, and this is why. If you were to take any object in the Universe […]
She’s not held back by other animals’ numeracy limitations.
Zizek is on the left and dislikes political correctness. How does that work out?
“Sea of Shadows” is a documentary you can’t afford to miss.
Creating more neural circuits through visual landmarking not only benefits your spatial orientation, it could keep Alzheimer’s disease at bay.
Clinical studies are underway. How we treat them moving forward matters.
After a landslide victory, a popular comedian with no political experience becomes Ukraine’s next president. Are comedians really the best leaders?
Techno-fixes will not get us where we need to be to stop the effects of climate change.
Studying ‘episodic memory’ in animals may hold the key to understanding memory loss in humans.
Air pollution is up to five times over the EU limit in these Central London hotspots.
“Earth” features about 30 of the biggest names in entertainment.
Geneticists figure out how elephants keep from getting cancer.
Jim Peebles, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz just won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics. It couldn’t be more well-deserved. Every year, the Nobel Prize reminds all of humanity to […]
Science and the squishiness of the human mind. The joys of wearing whatever the hell you want, and so much more.
The Earth is getting warmer, and humans are the cause. This is why. Let’s play pretend for a moment. Pretend, if you can, that you’ve never heard about the idea of […]
A new generation is waiting for the whimsy and wit of Dr. Seuss.
Scientists are investigating whether it’s possible to give modern elephants an ancient boost by reviving woolly mammoth DNA—all to curb climate change.
Explore the many different iterations and times of New Year’s celebrations around the world.
Artists and fans are the big losers as bot-powered scalpers make a killing.
If you want to know what makes a Canadian lynx a Canadian lynx a team of DNA sequencers has figured that out.
As it turns out, being just enough of a psychopath can do wonders for your creative career.
Are all those drunk animals on YouTube actually drunk? Zoologist Lucy Cooke examines what’s really going on when animals go, er, wild.
A climate catastrophe 2 billion years ago almost ended life on Earth. Here’s the biggest lesson of all. Although it was more than 4½ billion years ago that planet Earth formed, […]
The history of life on Earth took many meandering turns before it gave rise to us. When Earth first formed, all the raw ingredients for life — atoms, molecules, a potentially habitable planet […]
No, the Syrian civil war is not over. But it might be soon. Time for a recap.
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The Green New Deal is an ambitious attempt to fight climate change, but is it destined to hit the political skids?
The buildings of the future will be fluid, impermanent, and in constant transformation. But will human nature catch up?