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Why Netflix adopted the “No Brilliant Asshole” rule — and how to make sure bullies don’t destroy teams.

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.”

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

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. 

What was this mammoth tusk doing on the ocean floor 150 miles from land?

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

Experiments cannot confirm what theory predicts about neutrinos. And particle physicists have no idea why.

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.

From machines to animals, there are many kinds of possible minds.