Shared meanings create institutions with real power. They also enable us to construct personal narratives that give our lives ...

No natural phenomenon provides a rarer chance to study the secrets of the animal world than a total solar eclipse. This was ...

We love to blame Darwin for the brutal side of capitalism, but the truth is messier, and a lot more interesting, than the ...

Some mammals hibernate to survive in winter, but the Eurasian common shrew (Sorex araneus) employs Dehnel's phenomenon to get ...

There’s a new essay out from one half of the Amodei duo that created Anthropic, a firm often billed as a kinder, gentler AI ...

The brain’s hemispheres are specialized for efficiency. Modern neuroscience shows lateralization enhances function without ...

The idea sounded sensible at the time. Sugar plantations were losing money to rats, who were chewing through crops and ...

A large comparative study of primate teeth shows that grooves once linked to ancient human tooth-picking can form naturally, while some common modern dental problems appear uniquely human.

An ancient DNA analysis of a 5,500-year-old human skeleton reveals that an ancestor of the bacterium that causes syphilis was ...

Biological males in women’s sports have become a losing issue. But some ideological celebs and out-of-touch athletes still haven’t gotten the message. A new campaign from the ACLU defending ...

Every living being must cope with a changing world—summer gives way to winter, one year it floods and the next is a drought. It’s obvious that populations of plants and animals must constantly face ...

Unintended consequences can become indispensable — in architecture and in efforts to preserve life on Earth. Conservation isn’t always about grand designs. Sometimes the most powerful tools are ...