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Two aspects of memory – fast updating and long lasting – are typically considered incompatible, yet the insects combined them.
Gigantic ranges called “supermountains” formed twice in Earth’s history, and they may have had a profound influence on evolutionary history.
The human brain is only the latest chapter in the ancient story of thinking on Earth.
A ten-minute visit from a therapy dog reduces emergency room patients’ pain and anxiety.
Pet owners have consistently reported higher levels of social capital in their communities than people without pets.
The knobby starfish skeleton has diamond-like properties and could inspire new designs for lightweight, highly resilient ceramics, with widespread applications in engineering and construction.
An ancient continent called Balkanatolia rose and fell in the area in and around what is now the eastern Mediterranean.
The world’s great whales aren’t just vulnerable where they congregate, but everywhere they roam.
Scientists captured it on footage 1.5 miles below the surface.
Many animals practice what looks like self-medication. A new report suggests that chimps tend wounds with insects, often treating each other.
The story of dog domestication is one of converting the wild wolf into man’s nicer, smarter, best friend. It might be all wrong.
The ten greatest ideas in science form the bedrock of modern biology, chemistry, and physics. Everyone should be familiar with them.
Elephants mourn the dead, dolphins give names to each other, and insects can recognize faces. The animal world is much smarter than we think.
Letting nature’s expert engineers lead the way.
Admit it: you have no idea why a group of crows is called a murder. Here’s why.
Once numbering just 27 birds, the global population of California condors is now in the hundreds.
Certain types of dogs seem to be more discerning than others, however.
With around 5,000 summertime residents, increased tourism, and a warming planet, it is becoming difficult to protect Antarctica from invasion.
In movies and TV shows, aliens look like pointy-eared humans. Is this realistic? If evolution is predictable, then it very well might be.
From 1974 to 1978, the chimps of Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania were at war with each other, the first time conservationists saw chimps engage in calculated, cold-blooded killing.
Whether or not life exists elsewhere in the Universe, we can be assured of one thing: We are the only human beings in the cosmos.
Tusks suddenly became a liability, even though in natural circumstances, tusks are very useful.
What was this mammoth tusk doing on the ocean floor 150 miles from land?
Life largely owes its existence to this equation. Be sure to hug your house plant today.
Pando, which is Latin for “I spread,” is a single organism spanning some 106 acres.
A new snake becomes Instagram famous after its accidental discovery by a graduate student going on a nature walk in northern India.
Forget little green men: These scientists say we should be more worried about little green germs.
The human brain makes a striking deviation from the normal building plan.
Missing link? More like the weakest link.