While a squirrel’s life may look simple to human observers – climb, eat, sleep, repeat – it involves finely tuned cognitive skills.
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The inevitable long, slow decline is accelerating, and there’s nothing we can do. The Universe, as it is today, is less active, is forming fewer stars, and is creating fewer chances […]
The world’s 10 most affected countries are spending up to 59% of their GDP on the effects of violence.
A cosmic puzzle is finally solved, as new observations answer the question of why this galaxy exists at all. For the last couple of years, astronomy has had a tremendous puzzle […]
The Kazungula Bridge connects Zambia and Botswana, barely missing Namibia and Zimbabwe.
Once science operations begin for James Webb, we’ll never look at the Universe the same way again. Here’s what everyone should know.
The Russian writer’s scorn went beyond a difference in taste; Leo Tolstoy virulently hated everything Shakespeare had come to stand for.
As a form of civil disobedience, hacking can help make the world a better place.
Understanding society as an ever-changing archipelago, rather than as a fixed, closed structure.
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After 20 months, scientists find lab-dish brain cells matured at a similar rate to those of an actual infant.
The world isn’t ending! But we are likely at the beginning of a profound transformation.
Society-changing ideas form through a three-stage process, argues author Michael Bhaskar.
Awe-inspiring moments can be found in our daily lives, and they have surprising benefits for our health and sense of well-being.
The future of cities on the Moon, Mars and orbital habitats.
We bring multifaceted selves to our interactions, and in these interactions co-create each other again and again.
The UAE is the first Arab nation to send a spacecraft to the Red Planet.
Starling flocks, schools of fish, and clouds of insects all agree.
For some reason, when we talk about the age of stars, galaxies, and the Universe, we use “years” to measure time. Can we do better?
Even 1500 years after the fall of Rome, its western border can still be seen on German street maps.
The membership economy is upending how businesses are structured and how they deliver value to customers.
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If it wasn’t a singularity, how small could it have been? Today, when you look out in any direction as far as the laws of physics allow us to see, the […]
Due to deteriorating health, all Beethoven left behind for his final symphony were some musical sketches.
Turns out chitin is quite useful when you need a wrench.
While other factors exist, sexual prowess appears to have helped determine the role of Protoceratops frills.
Add some color to the internal structures and you’ve got some eye-popping imagery.
Even before the Big Bang, energetic radiation was always present. When it comes to the physical Universe, the notion of “nothing” may truly be possible only in theory, not in […]
Theoretically, we know what happened on the red planet. Here’s how we’ll find out whether we’re right. When it comes to the worlds beyond Earth in our Solar System, it’s only […]
The idea that celestial objects exist within utterly immense cosmic structures is becoming inescapable.
When we started imaging the Universe with Hubble, every star had four “spikes” coming from it. Here’s why Webb will have more.
In an excerpt from her recent book, the behavior geneticist Kathryn Paige Harden carefully explores a topic that’s often considered taboo: how genetics affect life outcomes.