The apes taught sign language didn’t understand what they were doing. They were merely “aping” their caretakers.
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A study uses sugar water experiments to show that hummingbirds can see colors invisible to us.
Never made a turkey before? Don’t worry, science can help.
When does a healthy desire for wealth morph into greed? And how can we stop it?
Is blood the key to anti-aging, or just another lucrative biotech opportunity?
Online Shinto communities have existed since the birth of the internet as we know it.
In determining what qualifies as solid science, controversy is inevitable.
Antioxidant vitamins don’t stress us like plants do—and don’t have their beneficial effect.
Individual space telescopes, like Hubble and JWST, revolutionized our knowledge of the Universe. What if we had an array of them, instead?
A tiny layer of microscopic dust is the only reason it appears red. When we look out at our planet Earth from space, we see a myriad of diverse colors. The […]
Your inner voice can be the devil on your shoulder or the angel. It depends on where your focus lies.
Life is possible because of asymmetries, such as an imbalance between matter and antimatter and the “handedness” (chirality) of molecules.
It’s that time of year when the hours of meticulous wrapping of Christmas toys are viciously undone in seconds by tiny children.
How do these little beasties detect light anyway?
Can space ever be safe? What about the metaverse?
Some of the most extreme weather in the Solar System just got stranger.
Certain water beetles can escape from frogs after being consumed.
Recasting the iconic Carrington Event as just one of many superstorms in Earth’s past, scientists reveal the potential for even more massive eruptions from the sun.
What makes some people more likely to shiver than others?
Our views from the red planet’s surface are more spectacular than ever. Ever since the earliest spaceflight, humanity has reached for Mars. This photo composite shows Meande Ring, a river on […]
Fittingly, the skull was found in the Rising Star cave of South Africa, itself located at a site known to UNESCO as the Cradle of Mankind.
It’s a wild idea, but there’s a way to test it. No matter how far we look out in the Universe, there’s always more “Universe” to see. Even at the extreme […]
Intellectual humility demands that we examine our motivations for holding certain beliefs.
Circle spoofing is an advanced form of GPS manipulation – but nobody knows exactly how, or why.
Many first-hand accounts from the golden age of piracy were grossly embellished, meaning it’s extremely difficult to separate Blackbeard the legend from Edward Thatch the person.
“To be ignorant of causes is to be frustrated in action.” So wrote Francis Bacon, counsel to Queen Elizabeth I of England and key architect of the scientific method. In […]
Who needs steroids when you have the placebo effect?
It’s literally the one and only trick that separates top-notch physicists from crackpots, dropouts, and those who can’t cut the mustard.
One of the world’s most isolated island groups has just been made one of the world’s largest ocean reserves.
From physics and alchemy to theology and eschatology, Isaac Newton’s research was rooted in a personal pursuit of the Divine.